If that means that Ryan doesn’t understand why Dorado served him and Ljubjana lots of expensive food without them even ordering it, I don’t understand it, either. It seems to me like the part about it being a test of “the bread in Hugo’s oven” was kind of an afterthought. I may be just plain missing something.
A reasonable guess, but it still doesn’t explain the really big mystery: Why did Dorado choose such an extravagantly expensive means of provocation? There are plenty of way to provoke someone that don’t cost anything. This is a man for whom “every penny is extremely special”, according to his own son. It’s a mystery.
Yeah, Ryan is kind of full of shit here. But that’s understandable. He doesn’t know the whole story, and he’s very young. Question is, will Hugo’s and Ryan’s friendship survive?
Yes, I know, I meant wrt Dorado. Dorado is a good Dad, if a bit unorthodox. He cares deeply for his son Hugo, and wants him to be strong. Because he will need to be.
I was happy with the eye-sight perspective up to now. After panel four, I expect swooping angles henceforth. That’s what you get from spoiling your readers with new angles, Mr. Allison!
This unfeeling bunch have totally missed out on feelings – you’re not (I think!) an automatic impressive comic-generating machine – so, sorry you were stricken, and do hope you’re feeling better now…
I see I am not the only one to come to the comment section to remark on the last panel’s camera angle. After all these years, something other than a straight-on viewpoint is shocking! Has the flu fried your brain and turned you from the blue-collar four panel webcomic machine we all know and love into an Artiste?
Ha ha! I use lots of weird angles all the time! Click back a few comics and have a look at how many different ways I drew Ryan and Ljubjana’s table in the restaurant. I’m always trying to add value.
Came here to comment on the beauty of the last panel, and see that i Have been beat to it several times over. So I will just comment on the extreme casualness with which Ryan is carrying his keys on his pinky. So casual! So precarious! Ryan in a nutshell.
I like the use of the snail’s eye view of the last panel. Very nice. You can do things when you draw. You are the director so placing your actors is important to convey feelings and tone to the meeting.
Restaurant logic is merely one of the vast number of categories of logic that last night failed to conform to.
The previous night failed to conform to restaurant logic, even after bistromathics was applied.
Dang, ninja’d on the bistromath! Dorado used the Toying with Diners transform.
If that means that Ryan doesn’t understand why Dorado served him and Ljubjana lots of expensive food without them even ordering it, I don’t understand it, either. It seems to me like the part about it being a test of “the bread in Hugo’s oven” was kind of an afterthought. I may be just plain missing something.
At least Ryan didn’t have to pay for the bread!
I believe Dorado’s plan was for Ryan to be provoked into a fistfight with him, and in doing so, become a man.
It didn’t work but also it worked.
A reasonable guess, but it still doesn’t explain the really big mystery: Why did Dorado choose such an extravagantly expensive means of provocation? There are plenty of way to provoke someone that don’t cost anything. This is a man for whom “every penny is extremely special”, according to his own son. It’s a mystery.
Ooh, camera angle.
You noticed that too. Obviously a fellow goth of refinement and taste.
Yeah, that last panel is just great. I love it.
I love the perspective on the last panel. Very cinematic.
That is some Orson Welles-style cinematography in the last panel. Ryan is posed like he’s about to knock a snow globe off the table.
Plus we can see that the set has a ceiling.
Yeah, Ryan is kind of full of shit here. But that’s understandable. He doesn’t know the whole story, and he’s very young. Question is, will Hugo’s and Ryan’s friendship survive?
Ryan’s dad is the king of the tramps. He is kind of an authority on odd paternal behavior
Yes, I know, I meant wrt Dorado. Dorado is a good Dad, if a bit unorthodox. He cares deeply for his son Hugo, and wants him to be strong. Because he will need to be.
As some sage noted a week ago:
He is a good man. Harsh, but fair.
What we need here is some good Bistro logic, it’s far superior computational model.
That last panel feels like I am lying on the floor, nursing a hangover*.
*Actually, I have never had a hangover. I hear they can be pretty bad.
It’s been a while, but I have. They are. And good guess.
I was happy with the eye-sight perspective up to now. After panel four, I expect swooping angles henceforth. That’s what you get from spoiling your readers with new angles, Mr. Allison!
With angles like that, I’m glad Ryan chose minimally compromised trousers, otherwise we could have had an eyeful.
This unfeeling bunch have totally missed out on feelings – you’re not (I think!) an automatic impressive comic-generating machine – so, sorry you were stricken, and do hope you’re feeling better now…
I see I am not the only one to come to the comment section to remark on the last panel’s camera angle. After all these years, something other than a straight-on viewpoint is shocking! Has the flu fried your brain and turned you from the blue-collar four panel webcomic machine we all know and love into an Artiste?
Ha ha! I use lots of weird angles all the time! Click back a few comics and have a look at how many different ways I drew Ryan and Ljubjana’s table in the restaurant. I’m always trying to add value.
Came here to comment on the beauty of the last panel, and see that i Have been beat to it several times over. So I will just comment on the extreme casualness with which Ryan is carrying his keys on his pinky. So casual! So precarious! Ryan in a nutshell.
Am I the only one who was so happy at reading the dialogue of the last panel that I didn’t even think about the artistic merit?
Yes. 😉
I like the use of the snail’s eye view of the last panel. Very nice. You can do things when you draw. You are the director so placing your actors is important to convey feelings and tone to the meeting.
Bravo Mr. Allison!
Sorry to be a cliché, but that last panel is historically great.
Just to be so dull as to repeat what others have said: that last panel is a thing of extreme joy Mr. A.