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Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 17 “Deader Than Dead”(38) 3/9/2013 Saturday
Panel One
A fire ball on two legs comes running up & jumps at them and smashes against the lexan wind screen. One of the V-raptors on fire. One of the soldiers had hit it with some of the white phosphorous shells from their AA-12!.
Panel Two
“Finally some payback!” The driver shouted in joy as they drove on trying to find the enemy to hit. The snapping creature jumped off still alive in its own personal inferno.
When I look at the leafy trees in my back yard, from several yards away, I can’t see the stems of the leaves. Some of them do seem to be floating in the air. I made a point of looking, after reading similar comments on this board. Granted, I can see larger branches, which do seem to be missing on the drawings in this strip.
However, the depiction of trees in other strips is “unrealistic” in other ways — they are usually just shown as a blotch of green with a brownish trunk (when the artist bothers to include a background at all). If you were to just accept it as an artistic style, and let it go, it wouldn’t bother you any more.
You’d have to ask a paleobotanist that. I do know that Dinny had to eat something.
BTW, I just noticed that my earlier post uses “yard” in two different senses. Allow me to clarify: “When I look at the trees in my back garden, from several meters away …”.
I don’t object to the leaves, necessarily. I just wish Jack would take the time and effort to do something different than just lazily photoshopping the same image all the time. He occasionally draws hills or trees in the background, which I think enhances the artwork a lot. But I still remember the detail of the backgrounds drawn by V.T. Hamlin and Dave Graue and wish I could see more of that.
Good morning Benders and all. Meanwhile, back at the ranch… Do dinosaurs need a reason to chase someone? Maybe they just want a snack. It seems that’s been the theme of this strip since the beginning of time. The cavemen and dinosaurs coexist but whenver they come in contact with each other, the meat eaters chase the caveman. Or has something changed?
Winter Greetings to the Benders and the readers of Alley Oop. So the Wizer has a chance to come clean and admit that he caused the dinos to stampede. Guz has known him the longest and it remains to be seen if Wizer does the right thing by admitting what he did or will he twist it around and blame Alley and the Moovians for ignoring him, thus forcing him to use the dinos to get recognition. We shall see what happens
Alley Oop is the classic caveman comic strip revolving around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine.
Agnes by Tony Cochran
Andertoons by Mark Anderson
Comments (23) (Please sign in to comment)
Rod Gonzalez said, 3 months ago
Well, Wizer, you’d better confess.
With that I bid all you wild and wooly Alleygators and Oopsters warm Hugg-a-pouncies!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 17 “Deader Than Dead”(38) 3/9/2013 Saturday
Panel One
A fire ball on two legs comes running up & jumps at them and smashes against the lexan wind screen. One of the V-raptors on fire. One of the soldiers had hit it with some of the white phosphorous shells from their AA-12!.
Panel Two
“Finally some payback!” The driver shouted in joy as they drove on trying to find the enemy to hit. The snapping creature jumped off still alive in its own personal inferno.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
At least better more normal looking drawings, except for the eerie leaves that is.
David53 said, 3 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Those aren’t leaves, they are a flock of frightened butterflies.
Fuddy Duddy said, 3 months ago
Night-Gaunt49, a question – is your avatar your own creation?
tundrasea
said, 3 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
When I look at the leafy trees in my back yard, from several yards away, I can’t see the stems of the leaves. Some of them do seem to be floating in the air. I made a point of looking, after reading similar comments on this board. Granted, I can see larger branches, which do seem to be missing on the drawings in this strip.
However, the depiction of trees in other strips is “unrealistic” in other ways — they are usually just shown as a blotch of green with a brownish trunk (when the artist bothers to include a background at all). If you were to just accept it as an artistic style, and let it go, it wouldn’t bother you any more.
tundrasea
said, 3 months ago
@Gweedo Murray
You’d have to ask a paleobotanist that. I do know that Dinny had to eat something.
BTW, I just noticed that my earlier post uses “yard” in two different senses. Allow me to clarify: “When I look at the trees in my back garden, from several meters away …”.
davidf42 said, 3 months ago
I don’t object to the leaves, necessarily. I just wish Jack would take the time and effort to do something different than just lazily photoshopping the same image all the time. He occasionally draws hills or trees in the background, which I think enhances the artwork a lot. But I still remember the detail of the backgrounds drawn by V.T. Hamlin and Dave Graue and wish I could see more of that.
Crispy Bacon said, 3 months ago
@tundrasea
One of the biggest problems with Jacks leaves is they appear and disappear randomly even when it’s obvious that there are not even any trees nearby.
Colonel Claus
said, 3 months ago
But Kudzu is everywhere…
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@Fuddy Duddy
No, I found it on the Internet.
Firebrand2 said, 3 months ago
Good morning Benders and all. Meanwhile, back at the ranch… Do dinosaurs need a reason to chase someone? Maybe they just want a snack. It seems that’s been the theme of this strip since the beginning of time. The cavemen and dinosaurs coexist but whenver they come in contact with each other, the meat eaters chase the caveman. Or has something changed?
firebrand1 said, 3 months ago
Winter Greetings to the Benders and the readers of Alley Oop. So the Wizer has a chance to come clean and admit that he caused the dinos to stampede. Guz has known him the longest and it remains to be seen if Wizer does the right
thing by admitting what he did or will he twist it around and
blame Alley and the Moovians for ignoring him, thus forcing him to use the dinos to get recognition. We shall see what
happens
billdi
said, 3 months ago
they are the creepy floating leaves of lazy artwork.
exturk said, 3 months ago
Atta boy Wiz – put the blame on Alley!