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Exzachly — Public Bathroom
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Published: 2007-10-26 11:08:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 9448; Favourites: 183; Downloads: 61
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<---Prev Next--->Geez, this one was a lot of work. Basically I did too many panels, so what you see here is a digital combination of several missing panels. Then I kept finishing early... Thinking I was done, shutting everything down, putting it online, then noticing that something was uncolored or didnt look right or whatever...
Anywho, it's a pretty good one. The intial ending was to have the first machine release poisonous gas, then my guy would say something like "Oh great, now I'm being killed by poisonous gas" or whatever.
About half way in I came up with the idea of him using the hand-dryer, except the hand drier would be a little sleazy and the whole thing would be portrayed in a seamy way. The degraded protagonist would return to the table and Inez would say "What happened?" to which he would angrily respond "Nothing!".
Anywho, because that would have taken more panels/time, I went with this.
If the air-dryer had a personality... It would definately be that rejected foreign kid in high school that nobody liked.
The first machine is kind my take on those new fangled motion activated paper towel dispensers, which are obviously designed to be inefficient and get you to use less paper towels.
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This got features in my journal. Scrool down past the stamps to see it. Funny, aye.
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"If the air-dryer had a personality... It would definately be that rejected foreign kid in high school that nobody liked."
that is the best comment I've ever read.
So true.
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Hehe, I never use a hand-dryer if there's a paper towel dispenser, so I can't help but feel sorry for the hand-dryer here...
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... What hell dimension do you live in?! Automatic paper towel dispensers? I've never seen such things!
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Robotic bathrooms are bitchy. I feel that people are recording me taking a dump through that eye. In fact, the red light reminds me of the computer that was threatening to kill the astronauts. Nothing worse than being killed by a public bathroom.
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"AHH I GOT SOAP IN MY EYE! TURN ON FAUCET TURN ON!"
"No. Go Away."
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I really love how you wrote out your thought process on this. I liked your other ideas as well. As much as I liked this one (I've experienced these new fangled towel dispensers as well and needless to say I was incarcerated for three months), I have to say that the organization of the panels seemed a little confusing. I'd suggest either numbering them or think of a better way to present them to flow better.
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I thought that might be a problem... I've been having to think about panels a lot more since I started breaking away from the 4 panel format. I think the solution is to buy some graphing paper and the panels on that so I can vary the size and shapes of the panels freely... Or more ideally get a tablet notebook, but who has the money for that? Not I.
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Graphing paper would be a good idea just to figure out the layout of the comic. Of course, depending on the comic, it could add a lot of time to your process. I would suggest doing the graphing paper idea one for your next detailed comic, but also (maybe) adding very discreet numbers in the corner. I've read comics since I was very young and I remember many cartoonists doing that. I don't know, it's just an idea.
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Oh man, I love it. Not only is it fun and interesting, but it makes a good point. Both of those machines frequently annoy me... And you only resort to the air dryer when you can't get any paper towels. I dunno if it's better for the environment, but it's just too slow...
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If there are two things I hate about the otherwise lovable world of commercialism and economicalism (is that a word?), they are air dryers and motion-senser paper towel dispensers. I prefer to dry my hands with my shirt or jeans.
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Those stupid goddamn dryers never do anything. Screw 'em.
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When I started out the main character was me. When i started I knew nothing about webcomics but the more I read the more I saw how cliched it is to do a webcomic with yourself starring as the main character. So, technically its still me but I very rarely call him by his name, just because I feel a little embarrassed by it now.
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You know what your character really reminds me of even though I semi-guessed it may be a reflect of you? He seems like one of those characters we can all relate to. I'm not even male, but I see myself in him. It really is ingenious how the comic grew and the characters developed in the way that everyone can relate and see themselves in it, yet it still has your personal style and mark.
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I wish I could say I planned or intended any of that stuff, haha. I don't give much thought to the relatability of the guy, though I do have a basic blueprint for what the character is like... kind of a cheerful, childish (at times unintentional) jerk. You can kind of get your character to do anything and still be likable as long as they're innocently happy about it.
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Well even though you didn't really plan it, the character is definitely a mirror character for the readers. I know there is an actual English literature word for the type of character, but I'm incredibly lazy (and a bamf). Also, I want to add that out of the cartoonists that I watch your character definitely has not only the most identifiable personality, but also he's what I want to be when I grow up.
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Great work! A perfect representation of the common modern bathroom these days...
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automatic toilets are scary. they speak to you. "your allocated time is 15 minutes. when 15 minutes are up the doors will open automatically. please enjoy your stay" (cue elevator music) At least IGO is environmentally friendly.
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lmao!!! i'd hate to take more than 15 minutes droppin a duece xDDDD
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lol yeah... who's that cat in your avvy?
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tis a squirrel. foamy the squirrel
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ah. I thought Igo was short for Igor (or, seemingly related to), so in my head, his accent was a bit like Moose in Archie comics, instead of the foreigner nobody likes
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LOL MOOSE!! YOU LIKE ARCHIE? LETS BE FRIENDS. DUUH.
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done. You and I...we friends now.
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So true. I hate those dryers, it takes hours to dry your hands and you feel stupid and the noise they make drives me nuts.
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In our school the foriegn kid was treated by a god. To the point that teachers would say his name to get cheers.
That kid was awesome.
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Igo likes to be turned on ~.^
and i hate those paper towel dispensers that are motion activated >.<
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"The intial ending was to have the first machine release poisonous gas"
Now THAT cracked me up!
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you should have rolled up your sleeves - i bet your shirt got wet
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Robots are taking over the world, and they're starting where we expose our most delicate parts: the bathroom!
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LOL.
If there were talking machines in real life, I'd verbally abuse them.
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sexually abuse them, more like it.. jk.
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Poisonous gas? That would have been sweet!
(I find all those automated sinks, soap dispensers, and paper towels to be kind of unnerving.)
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