Sunday, March 9, 2008

Facial Structure


Every character in Stuck Rubber
Baby
looks like this guy.

I like the story, I guess. It's a little slow moving but it has its moments and nothing about the writing has really rubbed me the wrong way.

But seriously, why does everyone have a giant chin that stretches all the way to their eyeballs? It's hard for me to distinguish between characters because everyone's face is nearly identical. If it weren't for hair and the occasional shading work, I'd have no idea what was going on.

Not that it's necessarily lazy to draw the same face a lot; lazy would be copy-pasting characters into every panel and only changing the dialogue (which plenty of comic strips seem to be doing these days). It just makes it tougher to commit to the story when I'm being forced to cross-check with previous chapters to make sure someone in a room is the same person I think they are.

edit: and I swear to God, if you say "IT JUST SHOWS THAT WE'RE ALL THE SAME PERSON, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT" I will punch you in your throat

1 comment:

Pat said...

it just shows that we're all *gag*