Comments on: Edie, Part Four

By: Andrew Cole (andy4hire)

Andrew Cole (andy4hire) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:56 +0000

Agreed about the Comic Sans, but the typed fonts kind of work for Steve, as they would for most robotic or computerized characters most of the time (well, maybe not the Madblood Androids...). The problem is that a strip where some text is typed and other text is hand-lettered almost always looks ... well, awkward at best. Maybe it's just a matter of finding fonts that work for the other characters, too, and that aren't Comic Sans.

Also, I TOTALLY second (or third, or whatever ordinal number we're up to) the motion to produce more Edie strips. I almost said, "the motion to revive Edie," but in the Shaenonverse that could imply all sorts of other processes that weren't really what I had in mind.

By: Brandon Gorley (bowtothebard)

Brandon Gorley (bowtothebard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:55 +0000

Ed: Can we go one day, ONE DAY, without resorting to puns?

. . . and yes, that was retorical.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:54 +0000

There is never any excuse for using Comic Sans.

By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard)

Edwin Quantrall (reynard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:53 +0000

So It Begins: "Edie reeeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllly needs to be the Next Big Thing after Skin Horse is complete."

YES!!! THIS!!! *SO* THIS!!!

By: fluffy <3 (fluffy)

fluffy <3 (fluffy) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:52 +0000

Also, this strip makes me realize just how much of Unity was inspired by this, too.

By: fluffy <3 (fluffy)

fluffy <3 (fluffy) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:51 +0000

The main problem with the typed lettering is just that you selected inappropriate fonts. Steve's font is okay, but Edie is using Comic Sans, and you should never, ever use Comic Sans unless you're making a greeting card for your grandmother or something.

I've pretty much always used font lettering simply because my penmanship is horrible and my hand cramps up if I try to draw such fiddly things as letterforms too much, and also I like how digital typography makes it easy to edit the text and rearrange the words for better flow and so on. Blambot is indispensible.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:50 +0000

Steve should consider this a promotion to Department Head.

By: Ruben Krasnopolsky (ruben)

Ruben Krasnopolsky (ruben) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:49 +0000

I like the mad-eye in the next-to-last frame

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:48 +0000

Aside from abstruse comments on minidresses and go-go boots, I have this to say: Edie reeeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllly needs to be the Next Big Thing after Skin Horse is complete.

Pretty please?

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:31:47 +0000

You mean 512 wasn't named for the all-important ninth power of two?

I'm not sure what sort of beep is represented by that font, but I presume it's somewhere between a classy gameshow buzzer and the blank tone used to censor TV dialogue.