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[Camp Comic] Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - Speak
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I am reminded of the episode of M*A*S*H where Major Winchester has a young wounded soldier who is mocked by the other members of his unit, and even his commanding officer, because of his stutter. Winchester rebukes them, takes the boy under his wing, and gives him his copy of The Odyssey, telling him that despite what his "friends" have been saying, stuttering has nothing at all to do with intelligence.
Then we see Winchester return to his tent, having received an audio-letter recorded by his sister Honoria, who he has always spoken of in the highest regard. He starts the tape, and of course, we learn that his sister too stutters.
This hit close to home. I didn't stutter, but got made fun of because how I spoke.
My brother had to have speech therapy.
Poor Brian.
Also: this comic. AGAIN. The Feels.
Well, that's to be expected, I guess.
Yeah. I think we're about to see a pile of broken bodies.
@Bluestorm33 MASH is one of those shows I've seen a number of episodes on reruns when I was a kid and hasn't quite risen to the top of my rewatch list yet. Even though I haven't actually seen that one I can almost picture it already! Your post just bumped the show a few more notches up my list
MASH is really good and manages to do very touching stories.
I mean this is its theme song:
I see the continuation of no full frontal faces of adults (except in old photographs) and a question came to mind; was this a 'Peanuts' influence or possibly an inverted 'Wilson' from Home Improvement or an original decision that happens to be a happy coincidence?
There's a couple reasons why I try to obscure the adults' faces in flashbacks. Since the story is about the kids, I didn't really want the adult characters to have too much attention put on them. I want the kids to always be the focus.
The other reason is a design thing...the kid designs are pretty cartoony and goofy, with the big heads and eyes and everything. If I drew the adults to look like they exist in the same world and are just as cartoony, I feel like it would take away some of the more emotional stuff I go for in the flashback scenes. Designing the adults to look totally different though (more realistic), might make the kids look really weird next to them. So my solution was to just show as little of them as possible! :]
Before I read the comments section I actually thought Brian was just checking out the teacher via male gaze at first, but that explanation makes sense. Excellent strip as always!
Holy bananas, I know what he's going through, I stutter! Keep on keepin' on, Brian! Practice makes perfect!
I think of the earlier comics as like the pilot, first season of a TV show. The basic premise is there, but they were still finding firm footing for the characters and setting. The book/PDF from the Kickstarter smooths over some of this. But there are inconsistencies that have been fixed as the setting became clearer (like the lantern).
I see them as loose continuity they exist and effect the story, but they have fluid canon.