{"id":46809,"date":"2019-06-30T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46809"},"modified":"2019-06-30T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:44:03","slug":"36-the-great-wall-of-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46809","title":{"rendered":"#36: The Great Wall of Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"images\/cb36.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bubblehead\" src=\"images\/cb_shamus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bubble speech\">I was going to have one of the characters come in and make fun of Casey for writing Too Much Danged Text, but once I saw the final work in all its glorious verbosity I realized I\u2019d done the exact same thing in the process of writing this joke.<\/p>\n<p>Still, are these pictures great or what?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other comics I\u2019d sometimes have text in diminishing point size within each bubble, so that it got smaller and smaller. I\u2019d always hoped this would convey to the audience \u201cYou are not supposed to actually read this\u201d. When it was really extreme, I\u2019d also cover up the spam bubbles with other, shorter bubbles. My worry was always that people would actually try to read the stuff, get bored, and accuse me of being the thing I was trying to mock.<\/p>\n<p>I never really figured out how well all of that worked. Here we didn\u2019t try to drive off the reader with tiny fonts and we left a most of the text open and readable. We didn\u2019t get a lot of complaining about excessive text, so either people have a good sense of when they should skip, or they have a bigger appetite for this sort of thing than I ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it works.  I tend to glaze over the mass of word bubbles in panel 2.  I actually quite like this strip, between the mass of narration and the bitchin\u2019 artwork, I think this one works out rather well.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I do wish I\u2019d have stuck with the DMotR tradition of doing Casey\u2019s DMing bubbles in yellow.  I think on strips like this one it would have worked better.<\/p>\n<p>Also, that last panel is one of my favorite things I drew in the entire run of CB.<\/p>\n<p>No comic on Friday, we\u2019re taking the day off, even from reruns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">EDIT 2019: This comic was previously published on December 23rd, 2009, so I guess we were taking a day off for Christmas. This time around, publishing will continue as normal. (Or whatever passes for normal around here.)<\/div>\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-46809","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\/46809","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=46809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47447,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46809\/revisions\/47447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}