January 15th, 2019
15 Jan 2019 · page 866 of 1306
All the situational awareness of a jam doughnut.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Nah, I've seen jam doughnuts better at hiding than him.
In all fairness, jam doughnuts know they are about to be eaten, they are probably more aware of their surroundings than Mr. Clueless.
I am really quite sure they don't. But if they do, that raises some worrying ethical questions.
Unless they like it.
Haha, I love Eliza's face in that last panel. Just so sick of this guy's idiocy!
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I love that he's so focused on impressing these two that he almost got nabbed by the porter. YOURE ON DEATH ROW, BRO, COME ON
And luckily, the porter was focused on that jam doughnut he has back at his station.
Nope! I'm just bad at drawing hands.
Palm down definitely means thumbs in (towards other hand). It does look a bit like he's wearing a skin-colored mitten, though. (This is coming from a guy who can't even draw stick figures terribly well.) So yeah, maybe the knuckle's a little off, but it's honestly not so much "bad" as "lacking detail compared to the rest of the panel."
Alright, the guy who can't draw is going to stop armchair comic-making now. 😊
his thumb is in! just draw his palm a lil too chunky really. i am not great at art but i do know what way around hands go, i promise!
For what it’s worth, it looks all right to me. The porter’s a beefy guy, so it makes sense he’d have thick hands.
Looks fine to me! But I like to remember that rembrandt too knew that arms n hands are hard :)
Awww, I like your art! I think it’s great and very expressive. And I’ve never noticed anything off particularly about the way you draw hands before. But now that it’s pointed out, if I click through the last few panels what I notice is that the hands that are in positions you are likely to see your own hands or other people’s in look good, and you articulate them more clearly. The ununsual hand positions, like the side of the porter’s hands are the ones that look like maybe you had more difficulty and they’re a little more vague. Maybe if you checked out how your hands look in those positions in the mirror, it might be easier?
Hands and feet are many artist’s least favorite parts to draw, though. So please don’t think this is harsh crit. I really love your comic. You do very well at conveying emotion and body language and using color, etc.
Btw, I really love Eliza's left hand in panel 6, such an expressive gesture!
One of the reasons I don't believe in an omnipotent and omniscient Creator. If one existed, it would have been able to come up with a manipulator limb that was just as versatile as the human hand without being so damn difficult to draw.
Panel 4: Knotty and Eliza simultaneously yank him backwards.
Is it just me or is Will's imbued super confidence slowly wearing off?
Maybe he wasn't actually imbued. Maybe he's just...like this.
Maybe his family has been doing this job for a very, very long time, and well, that many generations in a place like this...
Or maybe Uncle Igor stitched it on wrong.
The Igorth never make mithtaketh, thur.
Drink!
"All the situational awareness of a jam doughnut."
Does that refer to the Porter or Mr. Sharpe?
Why not both? :D
Eliza looks like she might be contemplating a change of career:
"Mr. Knott, your son doesn't want to be an executioner. So I'm here to take over his job."
Well, that will solve the problem of keeping the job in the family. Of course, she may have to give up waiting, and propose. 'Cause, SOMEONE's gonna chicken out there, too.
I ship it <.<
Honestly, I don't get that vibe off of them. They seem more like the "she/he is like a sister/brother to me" kinda pair.
I find your lack of shipping... disturbing.
I may not be an ace, but I share Mal's attitude from the bottom of this: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-3/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/character-questions-3/")
To be fair I'll ship just about anything >.>
If we're getting technical I ship Eliza with Will more than with Vincent >.> Even though I doubt she'd go for him either :P
He's well past "confident" and into "clueless."
"All the situational awareness of a jam doughnut." XD
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal.
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel...
Erm... cough "in silence dread", Will. Get with the programme. ;P
NO SOUND AT ALL,
WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD,
A FLY’S FOOTFALL
WOULD BE DISTINCTLY HEARD!
(Taran-tara!)
So stealthily the wizards creeps
While all the household soundly sleeps
And as I lay in bed awake
I thought I heard a noise.
Can anyone read the first announcement on the chalkboard in panel 4? I can make out “Mirrors to be replaced next week” (residual damage from Pride, presumably), “Curfew will be enforced”, and “All students in their rooms by 9pm sharp”, but the top one is defeating me.
Goodness, you either have really sharp eyesight or a really good monitor (or both). I wasn't even sure there were discernible letters in there.
I zoomed in on my phone. The resolution isn’t the best, but I could make out the shapes of the words well enough to guess at them.
Zooming in in Paint Shop Pro, i'm sure it's "Monday".
I think that the top line is "The library will be closed monday", but I'm not certain that "monday" is correct for the last word.
So...
...threesome?
Jam doughnuts have a great amount of situational awareness; they know they are delicious, and the dreading of not knowing when they are going to be killed by fat people makes their sugary insides sweeten with fear.
All the situational awareness of a jam doughnut.
You are seriously underselling the social skills of doughnuts.
A jammie dodger, that one.
I wonder if anything is written on that door stop, or if the concept will come back later.