Flushed Again
As I cleverly teased along with the most recent strip, I apparently had found some “hidden” goodies in the Photoshop file while preparing it for upload. Quite frankly I had completely forgotten about this since this strip is a few months old, but evidently I decided to redo the last panel for some reason. This happens to me sometimes; I almost finish a comic, zoom out a bit in Photoshop, and suddenly it’s apparent that an alternate take would work better. Very frustrating of course, but it’s all for the best – if I can muster up the willpower to do the necessary changes, that is.
Anyway, here’s the first version of the last panel, which works OK as well I guess, but I felt a lot of the elements didn’t quite work. (Note that the coloring isn’t completely finished, and that I with this version probably meant to remove the “Yaaayy!” speech balloon from the third panel.)
So, is it better/worse, or just equally as unfunny? Let me know what you think.
the first thoughts are always better. :)
and also kudos for changing the commenting system to the deafult wordpress one. too bad the old comments can’t be imported.
I prefer the one you ended up with. But maybe just because I saw it first ;-)
I go through this as well. Sometimes I don’t know which way to go. That’s when I let me stepson play eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
I think the original is better. This ending might have torn away a little from the joke. But, that’s just my opinion.
I prefer the original too. Although it seems a little more sadistic in humour than the other one. Which, admittedly, is why I like it…
Ah yes, the slightly sadistic angle attracted me to redo the panel – at the same time showing some of my less than admirable personality traits, probably.
@bachterman: Um, I haven’t touched the commenting system since launching the site. I was thinking of installing IntenseDebate or Disqus though, but I haven’t gone through with it yet. Why, are any old comments missing?
I think I liked the final product better – there’s less going on, you get to the joke more “cleanly” (if that makes any sense at all). But honestly, both work well here.