Created by:Pamela, Davezilla, Bob, Jason and John
By: matttttt
Did you even look at the segment you were sent John? I love the cityscape Jason.
February 20, 2002 10:08 AM
By: Andrew
Hmm...a second Corpse with monkeys, skulls, schematics and a clock. All we need are a couple of fish and we've got nearly all the standard Corpse imagery represented.
(I'm not knocking you guys -- it looks great, especially as the smoke from the burning city turns into singers even the devil can't stand. I do wish the last panel matched a bit better, but oh well.)
February 20, 2002 10:17 AM
By: mirla
A sure contender for "Greatest Title Ever."
I like this very much. John's panel has the right colors, in spite of the visible seam. He even somehow brought back the yellow fire without prompting.
February 20, 2002 10:21 AM
By: Jessica
Pamela's piece is simultaneously chock-full and subtle. Primates and what they play with? Very nice!
Davezilla, you kill me. Brilliant. Who the hell are those singing ladies?
Bob, that's some mighty fine transitioning. Yummy hot eyes!
Jason's slice - woohoo! Burning cityscape as transitional device, what a great idea. I don't get the butterfly w/gears motif, and I'm grateful. No getting it needed, it's just aesthetically keen.
That last one seems like it was perhaps created before the slice was delivered. The color scheme matches, but it otherwise doesn't seem inspired by its predecessor strip. It seems to be missing out on half the fun.
February 20, 2002 10:48 AM
By: heather
I think the last piece is being unnecessarily maligned - the clock reflects the gears, the colors are obviously from teh piece above...
the whole fun of the piece is not marred, it's just changed. in a way that couldn't be predicted. which is the whole point, no?
February 20, 2002 11:35 AM
By: Phineas
I am so stupid. Nobody say anything else mean to John, because it isn't his fault. I accidently re-assigned the fourth section of this corpse twice. And then when I assembled it I put in the incorrect section. Which is why the last section didn't fit. I've swapped in Jason's actual piece and now it flows as it should. The section previously displayed was done by Suzanne, and it was a fine job. As such the previous version of this corpse can be seen here Kids, please please please learn from my example and DO NOT huff Scotch Guard while updating your websites. I am now dragging myself out back for a copious ass-kicking. Thank you.
February 20, 2002 01:05 PM
By: michael
and don't all the detractors feel silly now...hehe
February 20, 2002 01:12 PM
By: Elizabeth
*laughs*
I look at a corpse and think about it, and then I read the comments and scroll up and down to look back and forth from the comments to the corpse so that I can see whatever detail someone is mentioning. (Read first comment, look at corpse again, read second comment look at corpse again...) And I thought I was just absolutely going crazy, that's it, snapped, ping, outta here, because for the life of me I couldn't find ANYTHING city-like in Jason's pannel, and I thought John had done a beautiful job... Thank God(s) Phineas has no problem admitting to his mistakes!
Gorgeous corpse, btw, for all involved. This is one I would want to print out, frame, and hang on my wall. *drool*
February 20, 2002 01:24 PM
By: Elizabeth
I forgot to mention.... The garage in the first panel is right above the ultra-peppy christian singers (or so I think they are.. if I am remembering them correctly)... which makes me think of that bumper sticker: "If going to church makes you Christian, does going to the garage make you a car?"
February 20, 2002 01:26 PM
By: Suzanne
Ha! Oh, man, this is the corpse that wouldn't die properly. All the mix up with the 4th panel in the first place, then an assembly snafu.
That's highly entertaining!
At least I get to see what it all looked like with my little piece, that's nice, too. Thank you for the compliment!
I really like the ending of the real version, though -- it seems like the scarier than hell reality is coming all too soon -- and even sooner than that.
*shudder*
:) Suzanne
February 20, 2002 01:48 PM
By: Andrew
Ooh, the corrected version is just as nice. I really liked Suzanne's response to the grey smoke streams, but Jason's treatment works very well, too, with echoes of the pencilwork in Pamela's section.
February 20, 2002 01:59 PM
By: Muad'Dib
Ah, yes. That makes a lot more sense. Pretty amazing just how well the unintentional cityscape worked.
February 20, 2002 02:25 PM
By: djc
I think the alternative version deserves equal billing -- a 5 part version and a 4 part variation.
February 20, 2002 03:14 PM
By: Jessica
Wow! OK, John was fully grokking (sp?) the strip, man do I feel mean and dorky now. Those faces flow magnificently into the shadowy creepy clock world. What is that framing the folks in Jason's slice? I like how the contours of the face on the right continue the slope of the shape that precedes it, and sort of informs the semicircle frame dealie. I loved the butterfly panel, but these two are really powerful together.
And Elizabeth cracks me up.
February 20, 2002 04:35 PM
By: matttt
Errr obviously not johns fault but what happened to the good bit?
February 20, 2002 05:58 PM
By: John
With regards to the confusion, don't give it a thought. I myself get very frustrated with sections that look unrelated to the others.
The mind is a funny thing. I got the section from Suzanne (the one with the gears) on a wednesday, and worked on it for about 20 minutes. The next day, I got the "right" piece--Jason's--and tossed out my previous work. After hours of work, I was suffering from corpser's-block, when I suddenly got the idea for the clock. Only just now did I realize that Suzannes "gears" must still have been in my head somewhere. Funny how that works.
How the primates of section one showed up again in my piece, I have no idea....
February 21, 2002 02:48 PM
By: john
Oh..and I agree with djc. There's no real reason why the version with Suzanne's piece (minus my unrelated one) shouldn't be posted on its own.
February 21, 2002 02:49 PM
By: Gina
John, what a pity you didn't keep the original section you worked on based on Suzanne's strip!
February 22, 2002 03:55 AM
