Offline.
I didn’t think to ask my nephew if he had a name for this creature, I called him ‘Tornado Arms Tom’ in casual conversation. I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
You may notice something slightly different about today, it’s not a permanent change, yet, but it is something I’ll be trying out again, and more frequently now that my summer job is over. I could see myself moving to this size on a more regular basis, I like the doors it opens for story-telling, but I don’t want to give up the daily update quite yet.
Nice strip.
Not too fan of the background OOOO lettering though, not that it’s too disturbing, quite the opposite in fact. I assume it’s meant to indicate that the noise in now overwhelming, rather than background as inside where it was overhead lettering, but for me it does the opposite. I don’t reall y know how to do that; perhaps by making it part of the panelling rather than the art? By making the outline of the letters really wide, with the art in the outline? I don’t know.
I tried it a couple of different ways, including the old ‘letters as a panel border’ trick, but it sacrificed a lot of the picture to make the letters discernible. I’m not 100% satisfied with the solution, but I wanted to keep the OOOO theme for now.
I love the larger format, the scale makes the full reveal of the monster more dramatic. Maybe you should leave the format the same as usual and just employ the larger format when you want the impact rather than setting a rigid “today is large format day” schedule for yourself.
That’s what’s going to happen, every once in a ‘I have more than a two-hour buffer’ I’ll up the strip size, but only for special events.
The large format and the evolution of the OOOOOO worked great for me, also. The progression is instantly clear.
As for the name of the monster, I’m no help, but Tornado Arms Tom sucks.
Well unless my nephew comes up with something better, TaT is where it’s at.
Gail? Maybe the wind monster identifies more as a female. I’ll have to see what nephew comes up with.
I have it on good authority Tom’s real name is ‘The Consequence.’ Certainly an upgrade. Also, there could be a part-time position in character naming opening up for the right applicant.