Love it more [03/10/2006]

[Nyamaza]

Mrow? =0_o= *looks up both Much Ado about Nothing and Rozencratz and Gildenstern. Thank you Wikipedia!*

Honestly, nice comic, with wonderful facials from the characters. I especially like Pierce in 2/3 and Alex in 2/4. Alex does WONDERFUl 'young evil' in those frames, and pierce looks more comspiratorial.

Quick question with the bodies though, what is with Alex pointing in frame 4? And why does Pierce seem to kind of, at random, start palen 2 with "with you." It kinda comes out of nowhere. Unless he's trying to talk shakespearean, which I never truely got. It can sound ok, but doesn't read/write well with me.

Also, isn't rewriting an entire 5 act play a bit of a tall order for a 2 fur high school project?I mean, I could see it as a semester project in a colege class, or maybe if they had 5 people, one to work on each act... but it seems a bit much, unless the education system teaches ALTO better, and so has things far more advanced at various grades, when compared to modern schools.

[Cassol203]

"With you." as in "I'm with you on that decision."

Hmm. If they can't work any harder, I'd say that it might be something they're supposed to work on in the background, starting from the beginning of the year, presenting it at the end. But I'm really not extrapolating from all that much concrete stuff.

[Allan_ecker]

I've been trying not to get involved too heavily in direct discussions about comic content, both so that I won't forget I haven't actually said something in-comic and so that the feedback I get on the plot, which is vital since the original Umlaut House editor is no longer working on the project.

But for some reason I just can't keep my big mouth shut this morning.

Posture and dialog: Alex and Pierce are practically giddy with anticipation of this project because they're going to overachieve like all-get-out. And if there's one thing Pierce and Alex have in common, it's a love of overachieving. So you get a lot of "extra" emoting through gestures. In retrospect a fist might have been more appropriate for "Love it more" but c'est la vive.

As for the schools: High School, along with most other things in the UHniverse is like ours, only way better. Much of the social structure is the same, but if you consider a productivity-accelerated world where those who don't have outright onboard computing power have access to ubiquitous computing at the very least, it's not too hard to imagine a two person team stretching some filters over the dialog of a play, maybe changing a few scenes, or if they're feeling ambitious, rephrase everything into idiomatic modern english. Or, if you're Pierce and Alex, overacheiving loons extraordinaire, you try to outdo Tom Stoppard.

While we're on the subject of HS curriculums, WTF is up with using Romeo and Juliet as an intro to Shakespeare? That was the first play by him I ever was exposed to and I came away with the impression that he was a witty but dreary-souled coot who wanted to show everyone how dumb love was. Much Ado About Nothing, now THAT is cool. Fistfights at a wedding, bootstrapped romance, and deleriously clever dialog along the way.

And in the 1993 version, that nudity is SO gratuitous it might as well have had the words "GRATUITOUS NUDITY" flashing below it. Not that I'm complaining, y'understand.

[Nyamaza]

One thing that still isn't quite clear to me on this, though it might be because I haven't seen either movie... why include beetlejuice references to refer to a movie adaptation with gratuitous nudity?

[Allan_ecker]

Because Beetlejuice played Dogberry.

GLORIOUSLY.

Four-hundred-foot-tall letters in the sky, brain-dribbling-out-the-ears GLORIOUSLY. He single-handedly canceled out the lameness of Keanu Reeves' phenominally stoned interpretation of the villian, which while funny wasn't as cool as the film demanded. That version was freaking rule in a can.

Also, I'm pretty sure the scene where the hero gets fooled into thinking his fiance' is with another man didn't originally involve so much... jiggling...