Well well well. I just love watching Eleanor get surprised. It brings out the human in her. That promises to be one heck of a wedding (don’t worry, at the pace GK movies, it’ll be years before we get to it).
So, I tried an experiment with this one. I thought it’d be fun to show Eleanor’s reactions rather than just have an Eleanor/Victoria back and forth conversation. Not sure how successful it turned out, but it was interesting to try, and heck, that’s how we learn, right?
So it looks like the signal’s fading, or the tubes are overheating or something. Whatever it is, the next strip is gonna go by in a hurry. Which will explain why something gets said that almost nobody notices until somebody does.
Short skirt and GoGo boots at work. That’s Eleanor all over.
And, Eleanor keeps up the farce, as well. Despite the fact that everyone knows she dangled Edison as bait. And, she knows that they know. And they all know that she knows that they know. But, we know that’s all a distraction from her REAL goal. Which we don’t know. Ya know.
I’m not sure if Larry or Stephanie knows what Eleanor’s up to. Larry, knowing Eleanor better than anyone, knows she’s up to something. But he was too busy fixing the discombobulationotron to try to figure it out. Poor Stephanie is still a little too innocent in the wily ways of humanity (and Eleanor) that she’s just happy to have Edison back.
Since when is Eleanor of all people judgmental of plural marriage?
Since when is Eleanor NOT judgmental about everything anyone else is doing?
Short answer: never.
Since when is Eleanor NOT judgmental of everything anyone else does?
Oh now, you three. Be nice to poor Eleanor.
When it comes to marriage, she’s a traditionalist. She believes in marrying one person at a time, and staying married until their death, possibly from an accident or poisoning if she’s no longer satisfied with them do they part.
And having multiple lovers, misters and mistresses, of course.
Actually, that line was a reference to a joke that I had dropped from an earlier strip. Edison and Victoria were talking about groupies, and Edison mentioned that she was a groupie for a band. “Do I know them?” Vickie replied, “I married three of them! At one time!”
So I thought I’d keep Eleanor’s line in.
(Two of those three was me. For someone with perfectly slender fingers I sure do make a lot of fat-fingered typos.)
Aw Pops, I knowed it was you. We’ve been commenting back and forth, hither an yon long enough for me to recognize you. I was just funnin’ with ya.
And I do the typo thing enough myself. Fortunately I can go back and edit.
I figured you’d spotted the problem, unless you were seriously distracted. So, speaking of editing, tell me how you do the drawings — rapidograph on hot-press illustration board, or something more forgiving? Lots of white out? Scan and digital clean-up? My graphic talent hasn’t progressed much since 1975 or so, so I’m not sure what’s standard these days.
I’m not sure what’s current these days either. I’m pretty old-fashioned myself.
I use mostly pens with ink- crow or hawkquill (when I can find ’em). I’d use a brush more, but I just can’t find one that’ll do what my old “The Adventures of Lyssa and the Pirates” one did. I do use a thicker technical pen-I have a thin one that’s amazing for stippling, but since it clogs I stipple with steel pens and markers. It’s all on Strathmore Series 400 Smooth Bristol Board (sometimes series 300 if I can’t afford the good stuff).
Occasionally I’ll use a little white-out, but mostly I scan the pages and clean up on the computer. This page, for example, used a lot of digital cutting and pasting (repeating the backgrounds). I also mostly do digital lettering these days.
I’d love to work in color, but I’m afraid that, being at the beginning of the learning curve, it’d take me two weeks to do each strip. I may experiment with it in the near future. I’ll keep you posted!