Mica "Got That Dog In Her" Kobold

just got an email sharing this very same info; the games for gaza bundle has finally paid out to medical aid for palestine. good news is in short supply but i'm glad to have contributed to this.

hey look at this sequence from @irisjaycomics's cyberpunk webcomic Crossed Wires. I just caught up on this comic and this sequence, the second page in particular, jumped out at me. there's a lot to like here structurally, lots of regular rhythmic panel use, this great buildup in the penultimate page with that set of eight regular panels, between the stopwatch and the company clock app, as the clock ticks down, to the break of that pattern with the dramatic reveal on the last page that the company is stealing time, fractions of a second at a time.

but it's that interesting little box that starts page 2 I want to talk about. look at that little diorama, in nice orthographic perspective. for ages I've loved the technique of using a panel with that kind of angled bottom to suggest a top down dimensional view. I first encountered it in venerable A Lesson Is Learned (But The Damage Is Irreversible), but I think I've seen it used as early as Lily Renee's golden age horror comics. it creates such a sense of space, of entering into a whole environment. in that ALIL page above it serves to emphasize the imposing scale of the breakdancing giant as the protagonists enter the forbidden garden. here, though, it really does feel like a diorama to me. the ersatz amazon employee Elaine is a bug in a terrarium, dominated by the space and by the technology she serves. but it's also an image paired with text describing it as a space where "her life belongs to herself alone". the sense of space created by the unique panel arrangement, bolstered by a series of other shots that also emphasize the dimensions of this small closet sized space where the company can't put cameras, thus takes on multiple strong, competing meanings, for character and reader. I think that's the sort of thing how-to book writers might peg as confused, or at least a confused analysis, but it feels pretty true to life to me. a cage keeps you in but it also keeps the world out, after all. I've lived some geometries like that in my life.

it's cool how the visuals of comics can make a space feel at once imposingly large and suffocatingly small, constraining and comforting. and it's partly down to the unique breakdown of the comics page, where unlike in something like film can impose the irregular geometry of this orthographic view on the rest of the regular, rectangular page and panels!

damn. comics sure are cool huh.

What is even the point of the site now lol
That’s like 75% of the content on there, at least.
“In accordance with our payment processors” man, I love it when my wallet decides what I can and can’t spend the money in it on 🤪