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Some people have been wondering when Satan would make his return. The time is now.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the older series, Satan is Phoebe’s father. He was the president of McNiven University when Puck was a student. He is now unhappily retired. You know what they say about the devil and idle hands? Well it’s all wrong.

I thought that this comic would be WAY easier to draw than my usual ones, but I was wrong. Again. I decided to change Satan’s appearance from a simple silhouette to a more visually interesting version. That provided new challenges, but I felt that the flat black didn’t cut it with a full-colour strip anymore.

Next strip, Puck returns with a real shocking revelation – just in time for strip 100!

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~JardimStudios Feb 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Haha, awesome!
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*ElectricGecko Feb 14, 2012
Thanks!
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~JardimStudios Feb 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're quite welcome!
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*Sol-Caninus Sep 29, 2011   Traditional Artist
I find this series easy to follow and visually stimulating. The drama of the first panel grabs me. The uniqueness of the second gives me a reason to stick around and think about what's going on.

The third panel threatens redundancy - a closer close-up, or an extreme close-up would be better, I think, to make the blunt finish in the forth panel seem even more blunt. And I think it would be good form to keep the focus on the silhouette of at least one gnome, so that it can be immediately associated with what follows.
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*ElectricGecko Oct 1, 2011
Makes sense. I felt that I didn't want to give another shot of the gnomes in panel three lest I blow the joke, but that sense of continuity might have helped. Oh well.
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*Sol-Caninus Oct 2, 2011   Traditional Artist
Yes. Continuity and emphasis in terms of visual communication. It's there in words. Now be as tight with it in pictures. Have it correspond in pictures. Make the story equally clear on both tracks.

This is not something I have any experience with or have aptitude for. But now that the inking is getting decent and I'm thinking about storytelling more, I'm starting to see how hard it is to tell the story visually. I'm learning to appreciate the logic in the paneling of those who do it well. The picture has to mean something - it can't just be a place to put in words.

If you watch a daytime soap opera without the sound (like when your waiting for a car repair) you can't tell what's going on from what you see. It's all talk. Very little visual communication of the script. TV in general is like that compared to Cinema (except for the A-Team).

Visual communication is becoming my new bug-a-boo.
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Mood: Wow! ~JARM13 Sep 15, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Wiping the milk from the computer screen that I laughed through my nose .
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*ElectricGecko Sep 16, 2011
Thank you for telling me about your nasal milkage. It makes me feel good that the joke works. Sometimes I do these comics and I'm riddled with self-doubt as to whether ANYONE will find the concept funny.
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!LenJon32 Sep 11, 2011  Professional
Whoa for a minute there I thought Puck was a part of the DC reboot!
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*ElectricGecko Sep 11, 2011
Nah. No reboots here. Better! Darker! More 'mature!' I hate reboots.
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