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1 month ago

in Not So Easy Rider on Truck Bearing Kibble
My apologies if I came across as dyslexic. In public no less. Perhaps I should state it more clearly. So you can understand. The punchline is easily ruined in a web page format due to the relatively small size of the comic in comparison to the size of the rest of the page. After bouncing around the web for a while the eyes tend to wander. And I wasn't blaming the artist or author, as their work is unparalleled. I merely made a suggestion. Thank you for the most angry reply to a comment I've ever received outside of a You Tube Channel.
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Charlie you've misunderstood the tone of my reply pretty drastically. it wasn't angry at all, in fact it was more sarcastic with a little cheekiness thrown in for fun. the fact that you read so much aggression in it surprises me. i was referring to the absurd notion of you expecting a solution to your "distinct problem" which had to do with the basic habit reading left to right. to expect the author to change the format to suit your wandering eyes seems quite audacious, to be honest. for pete's sake, read it the way it's intended and enjoy that it even exists at all.to criticize the fact that it reads the way all western comics do or that it's "almost entirely visual" (hey, more art to look at!) seems insane. and please, lighten up a little. comics are fun, smile!

also, maybe try fixing the viewing setting so the comic appears larger when you open the page, not ruining the punchline.

best wishes!

charlie
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1 month ago

in Not So Easy Rider on Truck Bearing Kibble
I love the comic but I've noticed a distinct problem. The jokes are almost entirely visual and require that you read the panels in order. Which is fine. Except I find that every time I bring up the page the first thing that catches my eye is the last panel. Thus I get the punchline before the joke. If it went back to vertical panels or the panels were big enough to require scrolling the joke would flow better.
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Off I get what you're saying. I was, in fact, kind of worried about how this one would go over because the handlebar reflection detail in the first panel can be easily missed if the comic is too quickly read. For some reason it never occurred to me to go vertical with this one, even though we've done it in the past. I'm actually kicking myself just a bit because I think that this particular comic would have looked rather nice vertically with "widescreen" panels.
Charlie I'm acclimated to western culture where we read things left to right. Also, I wouldn't publicly complain about my own dyslexic proclivities and blame them on someone else who's done a comic the way I've expected them to. But that's just me.
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