Darcy Generic: The Usual Suspect

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It's PruPru

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I recently took a good hard look at the outline for this Darcy Generic story that I'm doing. If I were to quit all my other projects and dedicate myself full time to DG:Mw/oaC, doing five full pages each week, it would still take me two years to complete the story. As things stand now, it looks like this is going to be my project for the next decade or more.

I've started considering adapting the story to either a radio play or a novel. I've never written in either form before, but I don't normally let little things like being completely unqualified and unprepared stand in my way.

The concept for this page was to present a sense of information overload. Usually in these stories, there are multiple things going on at once- Darcy's narration, the action in the panels which may or may not match the narration, little diversions and pieces of pointless information. The idea is to create an impression of the world Darcy lives in, a world of media saturation and epistemological anarchy.

[blackberry jam]

I see we're going for a Chris Ware-level font size here. *squints*

A lot of the Japanese comics I've been reading lately have involved a similar multilayeredness, although with slightly less of an emphasis on chaos. I do enjoy the confusion.

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I've attached the file instead of posting it from PhotoBucket. The text should be a bit easier to read now, but it's still too small.

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Appalachia Ming

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Appalachia was supposed to appear in the original mathNEWS Darcy Generic strip, but I left Waterloo before that story could be completed. I can't remember what her original real name was supposed to be but I think Watu Hasselhoff is pretty good.

They say that to find your porn star name you should take the name of your first pet and follow that with the name of the street you grew up on. My porn name is Scamp Maple, which I think has a nice ring to it. I'd definitely watch a dirty movie starring someone named Scamp Maple.

[Adam_Y]

take the name of your first pet and follow that with the name of the street you grew up on

Harvey Highland-Brow

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Anti-Gravity

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In keeping with my tradition of assigning theme songs to all Martyr w/o a Cause characters, Appalachia's song is "Sugar Ray" by The Jesus and Mary Chain: sleazy, sexy, and surprisingly well-read.

I regret squeezing Appalachia's monologue about Ron's mantits into a single panel. When I read it aloud it's hilarious, but when I read it on the page it seems a bit flat. If I could have spread it out a bit, with different facial expressions for the different movements, it would have been much better.

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Utility Belt

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I always used to like the diagram where they'd show what Batman kept in his utility belt. I think Darcy is going into this pretty well-stocked; if you were planning to go do reconnaissance against the global conspiracy, what things do you have lying around the house that might come in useful?

[Ambs]

Ooh, I like Captain Bug-man.

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The Cathedral

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According to my father, $19.99 is a bit cheap for salvation these days, but I wanted to make sure that this church had competitive prices. Notice the horns of Galactus on the side of the tower- a sure sign that something evil must be going on within.

Ambs- Many years ago there was a dangerous Pokemon toy over here, a model Blastoise that also functioned as BB gun. The original versions from Japan weren't quite as powerful as Captain Bug-Man, but you probably could have put an eye out with one. A while later we got some knockoffs from China that could barely launch the BB two feet. Asia is a wonderful place for toys... as long as it isn't your child or student being sent to the emergency room.

[Adam_Y]

Many years ago there was a dangerous Pokemon toy over here, a model Blastoise that also functioned as BB gun. The original versions from Japan weren't quite as powerful as Captain Bug-Man, but you probably could have put an eye out with one. A while later we got some knockoffs from China that could barely launch the BB two feet. Asia is a wonderful place for toys... as long as it isn't your child or student being sent to the emergency room.

Y'see I think we need more of that sort of thing in the UK. Keep the little ones on their toes.