{"id":46795,"date":"2019-06-14T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46795"},"modified":"2019-06-14T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:51:57","slug":"31-bringing-home-the-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46795","title":{"rendered":"#31 Bringing Home the Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"images\/cb31.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Original Commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A little behind-the-scenes stuff on this strip:<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Casey wouldn\u2019t put something like a \u201cused livestock\u201d lot into his world. He simply presented the players with a vague NPC who sold them what they needed. He wasn\u2019t planning on this course of events, so the place is light on details. The players fill the descriptive void with their imaginations and their kidding around, and that reality creeps into the strip.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of those cases where I really missed the ability to just spend a dozen panels on something. I had all sorts of little quasi-jokes I wanted to pack in here. The idea of a \u201cused car lot\u201d for livestock made me laugh, and I wanted to really explore the idea. However, it wouldn\u2019t have been good storytelling to stretch this encounter out for three strips, and I don\u2019t think the smaller jokes would carry a strip themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I imagined the animals would have numbers painted onto their sides, the same way car lots put the price in neon across the front window. I imagined a bunch of banter from the players describing the place while Casey droned on and they ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>I pictured signs hung on the animals:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fortnight, same as cash!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll-leather exterior!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelicious and hard working!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have nothing to add to the commentary above. If I did, it would be way too meta-meta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man, \u201cAll Leather Exterior\u201d still cracks me up. I don\u2019t remember if that was in the original script or not, but that totally should have gone in to the comic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46795"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47353,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795\/revisions\/47353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}