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Sorry, but it is highly unbelievable, that she managed to lift the receiver. The only way she could have manged that would have been by using her weight and an extremely long lever. But since the weight is linear to volume, he weight has considerably diminished. If she shrank to one half of her original hight, her weight would shrink to one eight of her original weight.
It would have been a better solution, if that phone would have a hand-free function.
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You're absolutely right, but for purposes of plot, I needed the off-hook beeping noise to attract Maureen to the office, which would not have worked with a hands free option. The original version of this comic didn't have this issue as Maureen came to the office to use the phone in the first place. Back then (was it that long ago, geez I'm old) not everybody had a cell phone, so you had to find a land line to make a call. Anyway, I could've just had Maureen discover Alison by random chance, but I liked it better this way.
Anyhow, I had originally drawn a panel in which, upon arriving at the desk, Alison shoved the receiver and it slid off, and she is surprised at how easily it moved. The intent was to present the argument that at her reduced size she is proportionally stronger than expected, and have her use the typical scientific mass-to-muscle-ratio technobabble to explain it to the reader. However, that panel did not make the cut, as it bogged down the story flow. At one point I thought about redoing the scene using the handy pencil as a lever (again noting her surprise that she was capable of lifting something like that so easily) but that would've taken almost another entire page. Ultimately I decided that was too much unnecessary exposition.
Here is a temporary link to the uncolored original just so you can see I'm not making this up:
This image also includes a shot of Alison having trouble dialing, which also would've been a big problem with her weighing so little and having no leverage. She would've had to use the pencil, or jump, or some other thing that just took way too much time to explain, so I bypassed it to keep the story flowing. Plus, I've used a similar scene in other comics already.
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That must have been more than 10 years ago when not everybody had a cell phone. Or even more. Well, it makes some sense to use this explanation for the comic. Anyways, I'm looking forward to see the rest of the comic.
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According to an archived copy of my old site's comics page, I posted the original in March 2007.
Anyway, that gave me a chance to reread the original...and I misremembered it entirely! Turns out Maureen went to the office because her cell phone had no reception in the building...and the office phone had a speaker option after all (although for some reason Alison doesn't hang up the phone). I should've gone back and looked at that before I went through all this, and you'd think I would have...but nope. That's what I get for trusting my memory.
Anyway, I still like it better this way. Maureen would have no reason to make a phone call just minutes before auditions started. The new version gives her a legitimate reason to come back to the locker room alone. Plus I went to all the trouble to draw that gym bag sitting out (and it will be used again later).
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