Flushed Again
As I cleverly teased along with the most recent strip, I apparently had found some “hidden” goodies in the Photoshop file while preparing it for upload. Quite frankly I had completely forgotten about this since this strip is a few months old, but evidently I decided to redo the last panel for some reason. This happens to me sometimes; I almost finish a comic, zoom out a bit in Photoshop, and suddenly it’s apparent that an alternate take would work better. Very frustrating of course, but it’s all for the best – if I can muster up the willpower to do the necessary changes, that is.
Anyway, here’s the first version of the last panel, which works OK as well I guess, but I felt a lot of the elements didn’t quite work. (Note that the coloring isn’t completely finished, and that I with this version probably meant to remove the “Yaaayy!” speech balloon from the third panel.)
So, is it better/worse, or just equally as unfunny? Let me know what you think.
March 25th, 2009 at 00:45
the first thoughts are always better.
and also kudos for changing the commenting system to the deafult wordpress one. too bad the old comments can’t be imported.
March 25th, 2009 at 03:00
I prefer the one you ended up with. But maybe just because I saw it first
March 25th, 2009 at 05:12
I go through this as well. Sometimes I don’t know which way to go. That’s when I let me stepson play eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
March 25th, 2009 at 06:08
I think the original is better. This ending might have torn away a little from the joke. But, that’s just my opinion.
March 25th, 2009 at 16:12
I prefer the original too. Although it seems a little more sadistic in humour than the other one. Which, admittedly, is why I like it…
March 26th, 2009 at 12:04
Ah yes, the slightly sadistic angle attracted me to redo the panel – at the same time showing some of my less than admirable personality traits, probably.
@bachterman: Um, I haven’t touched the commenting system since launching the site. I was thinking of installing IntenseDebate or Disqus though, but I haven’t gone through with it yet. Why, are any old comments missing?
March 31st, 2009 at 17:07
I think I liked the final product better – there’s less going on, you get to the joke more “cleanly” (if that makes any sense at all). But honestly, both work well here.