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PTF Review Super Suckers 2.2

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invisifan

It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 02:29:38 AM
It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

You just enjoy being cryptic, don't you?  ;D

invisifan

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 16, 2016, 02:31:18 AM
Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 02:29:38 AM
It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

You just enjoy being cryptic, don't you?  ;D
It's fun at times ;) but there's always an answer ... Oh, and mushrooms btw

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 02:44:29 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 16, 2016, 02:31:18 AM
Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 02:29:38 AM
It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

You just enjoy being cryptic, don't you?  ;D
It's fun at times ;) but there's always an answer ... Oh, and mushrooms btw

Perhaps if you just explained how mushrooms connect with makeup (and the fact that being a vampire, Kelly can't see her reflection to apply the makeup), it would be clearer. Even when you supply the supposed answer to being cryptic, you're still being cryptic. I can never tell how many levels there are involved.

Seems to me the solution to Kelly's (and Jess') vampire makeup problem is staring them in the face. Or rather, the solution is for them to stare at each others' face, and each do the other's makeup. Problem solved.

daren

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 15, 2016, 06:22:01 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 15, 2016, 02:54:41 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 15, 2016, 01:28:01 AM
Quote from: daren on May 14, 2016, 10:03:10 PM
This last issue was awesome (again!)


Jeff Shultz's parody of the Archie main five in their famous pose:




Which is what parallel counterpart of which?  I didn't see that at all.  I guess Stewart's a little bit of an Archie/Jughead mashup and Kelly's sort of a Melody/? mashup, but I didn't see any attempt to satirize the Archie main cast there in any way.

It's the pose of 2 people fighting over one person. Like Betty and Veronica fighting over Archie.


It's hard for me to recognize. It looks like four people fighting over two people (Kelly and Jess). Or maybe it's Stewart, Vera and Kelly versus Adam and Trevor, fighting over Jess. At any rate, it's a group fight with so many people involved. Maybe Sitcomics just invented the "Love Hexagon"?


Maybe! The picture is based on a famous image used on stuff like comic covers, it's almost like a logo.







Sorry it's so blurry, like I said it's like a logo so it's small.

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: daren on May 16, 2016, 03:55:12 AM



Sorry it's so blurry, like I said it's like a logo so it's small.

I'm glad you posted that, Daren, because it gives me an excuse to talk about these little mini-scenes (taken directly from the interior artwork of one of the stories appearing in that issue) that Archie used to use as a regular feature atop their title logos in the 1960s. I'm not entirely certain exactly when that cover policy was discontinued, but sometime before the 1970s. I absolutely LOVE those!

I believe that small image falls under the category of what's known (for indexing purposes) as a "vignette". Usually that refers to something like "floating heads", for instance on a cover of THE AVENGERS that shows a pitched battle between two (or a small group) of characters, surrounded by the floating heads of other Avengers characters not directly involved in that scene. But I believe the term would apply to these small "preview" images that Archie Comics placed above their logos, beginning (as best I can determine) in July 1965 with ARCHIE #156. In all cases, the small images on those covers was taken directly from the interior artwork of a story appearing in that issue.



What is significant (other than the start of that "vignette image above the logo" policy) about that particular comic? It contains the following story (which is detailed at length in Bart Beatty's book, Twelve Cent Archie):

QuoteWhen Archie breaks a date with Betty again, she snaps and decides to murder him. After Betty makes several attempts on Archie's life, involving falling trees and wagons full of bricks, Jughead suggests that Archie try to pacify her in "Woman Scorned"!

But I digress. This really probably belongs in another thread. I've just posted the full story "Woman Scorned" over on the Crazy Betty thread, if you care to take a look at it.

invisifan

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 16, 2016, 03:43:53 AM
Perhaps if you just explained how mushrooms connect with makeup (and the fact that being a vampire, Kelly can't see her reflection to apply the makeup), it would be clearer. Even when you supply the supposed answer to being cryptic, you're still being cryptic. I can never tell how many levels there are involved.
Ah, but that wasn't this answer, that was that last one (cryptozoology) ... the largest animal (as you stated) is the blue whale, and for the record the largest plant is the giant redwood, but we've know for ½ a century that there are (at least) 3 taxonomic kingdoms in evolutionary biology — the third being the mycota which incidentally much more closely resemble animals at the genetic level ... there is vast divergence, just as with flora and fauna, and the branch that includes the mushrooms lives primarily underground, just extending small capped stalks above ground for reproductive distribution; the body of the organism is buried and extends many stalks — what appears to be a cluster of mushrooms is in fact general;y multiple "branches" of the same creature.  I's very difficult to track, but there are know to be several (one in Oregon, another in Michigan at the very least) are genetically homogeneous and interjoined (ie. a single organism) that underlie quite a number of square miles to an unknown depth ...

QuoteSeems to me the solution to Kelly's (and Jess') vampire makeup problem is staring them in the face. Or rather, the solution is for them to stare at each others' face, and each do the other's makeup. Problem solved.
Provided they trust each other (and their make-up judgement) and expect to always be together whenever either one needs ... an update ...  :-\   

DeCarlo Rules

#23
Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 04:19:21 PM
I's very difficult to track


You IS very difficult to track. You're jumping around connecting dots in a non-sequitur way that makes your train of thought impossible to follow.
What do mushrooms (yeah, technical classifications aside, very few people are going to characterize mushrooms as a "creature") have to do with cryptozoology? Mushrooms are KNOWN, cryptids are UNknown. Therefore whether fungi can be considered a group organism is completely irrelevant. And why DO you insist on answering a straightforward question with a riddle in the form of the answer to a previous cryptic remark of yours that I've long since forgotten about? That was rhetorical. Don't you DARE answer, since I'm sure you'll think you're being clever, but you'll just be being annoying again.


Oh, why would you just be unobfuscating and just explain what you meant about the makeup? Obviously too much to ask.

invisifan

The answer should be obvious to many (if not most) girls of her generation with very little effort (in fact the basics were used by Fred Saberhagen in his Dracula series of novels in the 1970s to allow him to shave conveniently) and that is the tablet (or even smartphone) with a front facing camera — almost universal these days on tablets (for skype & such as well as facial recognition) and common for phones too.  Where Dracula had a large video camera mounted over a monitor and had to train himself to switch (back) right-to-left, the modern device is hand held and can generate a mirror image for display automatically ...

Does she need to get a computer genius to write that software for her? Well, if you enter "hand mirror" in the search at Google playstore you'll get about 30 apps that do exactly that, plus options to zoom, brighten, illuminate, freeze, snapshot, flip, try effects and more ...

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 07:23:33 PM
The answer should be obvious to many (if not most) girls of her generation with very little effort (in fact the basics were used by Fred Saberhagen in his Dracula series of novels in the 1970s to allow him to shave conveniently) and that is the tablet (or even smartphone) with a front facing camera — almost universal these days on tablets (for skype & such as well as facial recognition) and common for phones too.  Where Dracula had a large video camera mounted over a monitor and had to train himself to switch (back) right-to-left, the modern device is hand held and can generate a mirror image for display automatically ...

Does she need to get a computer genius to write that software for her? Well, if you enter "hand mirror" in the search at Google playstore you'll get about 30 apps that do exactly that, plus options to zoom, brighten, illuminate, freeze, snapshot, flip, try effects and more ...


Jury's still out on whether or not vampires can be photographed. It varies depending on who's writing them. The minute you start mixing science and technology with the supernatural, then you're forced dredge up questions about "The Way Things Work", and ask questions about why IS it exactly, that vampires cast no reflections?

But what if you misplaced your tablet/phone or forgot to charge it? Left in the car or the bathroom before going somewhere else, and then you have to fix your makeup? Not so much more reliable than depending on your BVFF (best vampire friend forever) to check it for you. Kelly and Jess might as well learn to depend on each other. Fixing each other's makeup is just going to be a minor example of a lot of different ways that they're going to need to rely on each other's help not to blow their cover, and to protect each other from threats small and large.

daren

They end up with a really good solution.

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