Sigh! Gary gets the kid’s frisbee down from the roof, and what thanks does he get? (So, okay, he transformed into a bat in the kid’s presence, but is that, I ask you, any reason for the kid to run off in a panic?)
That’s an odd thing. At first I didn’t notice that the last frame of the comic is drawn from a different viewpoint than the previous two frames. Now that I’ve seen it, I realize it breaks the “180 degree rule” of filmmaking, which says you shouldn’t cut between scenes shot from opposite sides. (Read the Wikipedia entry, they may explain it better.) It’s funny that it works fine in this comic strip for a couple of reasons: the relative heights of the characters and the fact that the background really doesn’t matter. Imagine the last frame with the background of the preceding frame, if you have the motion lines from Gary coming off the roof to the left the comic works just as well. This leads me to wonder if Mark Buford did this, not out of ignorance of the rule, but to break up the redundancy of the background and because he knew it breaking the rule wouldn’t matter.Or am I over-thinking this?
I keep thinking one of these days Gary is going to get dis’ed once to often and flip out and murder the entire neighborhood. Leo of course will be the first casualty…
Sisyphos almost 12 years ago
Sigh! Gary gets the kid’s frisbee down from the roof, and what thanks does he get? (So, okay, he transformed into a bat in the kid’s presence, but is that, I ask you, any reason for the kid to run off in a panic?)
Red_Fez almost 12 years ago
The Rodney Dangerfield of the undead.
Thehag almost 12 years ago
Oh it’s a frisbee, wow Gary morphs into a really big bat! Is he Australian?
starlena Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Aww poor Gary, he was just trying to help the kid out by getting his Frisbee down off the roof :( he didn’t mean to scare the poor thing…..
Uncle_Bad almost 12 years ago
That’s an odd thing. At first I didn’t notice that the last frame of the comic is drawn from a different viewpoint than the previous two frames. Now that I’ve seen it, I realize it breaks the “180 degree rule” of filmmaking, which says you shouldn’t cut between scenes shot from opposite sides. (Read the Wikipedia entry, they may explain it better.) It’s funny that it works fine in this comic strip for a couple of reasons: the relative heights of the characters and the fact that the background really doesn’t matter. Imagine the last frame with the background of the preceding frame, if you have the motion lines from Gary coming off the roof to the left the comic works just as well. This leads me to wonder if Mark Buford did this, not out of ignorance of the rule, but to break up the redundancy of the background and because he knew it breaking the rule wouldn’t matter.Or am I over-thinking this?
GreenBikeGuy almost 12 years ago
I get this reception all the time.
klesmiley_ Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Poor Gary. He’s such a good pers…, um, vampire. He’s just misunderstood.
JR6019 almost 12 years ago
Can’t win for losing, can you Gary?
captainedd almost 12 years ago
Next thing you know, they’re going to inoculate Gary for rabies!
Rista almost 12 years ago
I keep thinking one of these days Gary is going to get dis’ed once to often and flip out and murder the entire neighborhood. Leo of course will be the first casualty…