My fundamental rules for comic drawing are clarity, consistency, motion and emotion. Those are the only four things that matter, and a comic that isn't 4/4 is not good no matter how pretty it is, and a comic that meets up those requirements is a good comic, no matter how ugly it may be. A comic must be clearly readable, with no confusion of what is happening, who the characters are, what they are doing, and how they are feeling.
With this one, I have no idea whether it's perfectly readable or utter gibberish. There was a lot of context to squeeze into just four panels, as it was based on an actual incident.
I couldn't find a better translation for "summer room", which is a small unheated, unattached "living room" that my boyfriends' parents built on their yard, using building materials like the glass doors from boyfriend's father's workplace - they renovated the office and he was in the right place at the right time to grab them and build a nice glass panel sun room with them. Being unheated, it's not really in use other than in the summer, hence the name, and also the mould spots.
The tabletop game of Warhammer 40.000 is kind of like chess, but way more complicated and with more dice involved. As the table required for playing is quite large, takes up a lot of time to set up and move around, and took up a lot of space indoors, my boyfriend's parents suggested we could use the summer room to play. My boyfriend hasn't settled on any specific faction to play, but one of the ones he has played most often is followers of Nurgle, the evil chaos god of rot, pestilence, disease and corruption. We've had a running joke about every time when he makes statistically unlikely great dice throws while he plays the plague lord faction, it's because of something he's doing that pleases the father of disease - like not showering that day.
And I have been cycling this comic idea in my head for so long over and over, trying to puzzle out how to make the most streamlined and clear depiction of the entire incident in the space of just one strip, that I have no idea of any kind whether it makes any sense at all without outside context.
Amy Michels
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