Annotated 31-6
That “Oh, MY!” balloon’s position still irritates me a little. It should be at the panel’s top left, and even if we had to encroach on the panel borders to make that happen, it’d be worth it. As it is, the reading order looks ambiguous to me, and that’s generally the last thing you want in lettering. Flo was generally so reliable about this sort of thing that we had no real system in place to address the few issues that did crop up.
Once more we’re mining earlier material, this time Hollister and Clair and their conflict with the nameless olds, now represented by Caneghem. Having forgotten the young sky elves for about 25 chapters, we’d make regular use of them after this. A quick nod is all they get for now, but that’s more deliberate planting than their first appearance.
Hollinger, however, was mostly dropped, as he was a superfluous character with a name that’d be annoying to keep straight with Hollister’s (which was absolutely a problem I created for myself, for which I can blame no one else). Much as I admire the new DuckTales, I don’t envy the creators’ first and most difficult job: making three genetically identical characters with rhyming names into distinct individuals. Actual twins and triplets no doubt appreciated the effort; all prior incarnations of the characters didn’t bother to differentiate them by anything but (sometimes) color. You can only change so much of the lore, but that job would be a lot easier if their names were Hal, Dave, and Lenny.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t find the word balloon positioning that ambiguous. I think the downward motion of the three balloons before that helps make it more apparent how you’re “supposed” to read it.
I don’t remember Clair from my previous read-through but I’ve decided I like her because of her over-the-top cheer. Not sure if that sticks going forward, though. Looking through her tag, it seems maybe not?
For what it’s worth, I found the word balloon configuration to be confusing as well. I had to re-read that panel a couple of times before I figured out the correct flow.
Yeah, balloons confusing. I missed the first balloon on first read. Hollinger’s the old elf, right? He’s not tagged.
Pretty sure Hollinger’s the other young elf that’s with Claire and Hollister in their first appearance. Thus T comparing them to (pre-reboot) Huey, Dewey, and Louie – look similar, have similar names, play basically the same role, no difference to speak of in their personality. (I’m sure T and Flo would have distinguished them as time went on if they hadn’t decided to jettison Hollinger, but they were pretty indistinguishable at the start.)
Maybe, but that guy didn’t have any lines, and “Hollinger” and “Hollister” are both tagged on a page (4-2) that doesn’t have mute guy but does have old guy (as well as a page in chapter 31 that also has the old guy speaking). And it would be odd for someone who seems to be the sky elves’ leader not to be tagged.
Hollinger is also tagged on the original version of this page. T, I see you now call them “the nameless olds, now represented by Caneghem,” but I wonder if there’s been some confusion — Hollinger seems to be speaking well for himself here.
I think there was some confusion between Flo and me about who Hollinger even was! I had forgotten about that. Rather than scramble to fix this, I’ll just address it next time Hollister and Clair show up. But this does all kind of argue the central point that whoever
HollisterHollinger was, he wasn’t very memorable!(And I meant “represented” in the governmental sense, not in the sense of his doing ALL the talking for them.)
Fair enough! But I think you mean Hollinger, lol.
[Jumps off floating island]
Eh, I meant Chapter 47 in the post above, not Ch. 31 obviously.
By “valuable” lives, he means Gastonian lives, presumably?
From the way he was acting in his last scene, I think he means the lives of people he didn’t think of as expendable. All of whom he likely considers Gastonian (whether Syr’Nj would volunteer to be considered that way or not), but not all Gastonians are included by any means.
I was going to write a comment in the last strip about how Frigg’s edgelord Chad attitude can wear a little thin sometimes, but now I rather note how well both Rachel and Scipio work as foils to Frigg. Good work
You’re right. I read them out of order b/c I normally read whatever is highest first.