Dark Science #157 - Puppet Theater
I'm sure this is fine. Definitely. Probably.
Dark Science #157 - Puppet Theater - Dresden Codak (Dresden Codak)
Comments (16)
I only just realised something. Vonnie calls Kim "The Cyborg" at the beginning with Volo asking her about it. Then at the end, Volo asks about "The Cyborg" and Vonnie says "KIM can wait".
Yeah! Maybe some walls are cracking...
The way Asmodea's speech bubbles have gone wobbly by the end of page, combined with the way they have dark speech bubbles when they're mask on/in character and light speech bubbles when they're mask off/out of character, is somehow causing me a little bit more psychic damage each time I look at the strip again. I think I need soup.
The first half of this page looks slightly different from the usual style: there's black outlines and starker cel-shading. I don't think I've ever seen this before in Dark Science, does it mean anything...?
The art style changes because of the shift in tone of the conversation - the first half is all business, so no need for anything else but basic shapes and colouring; by the end of it the characters have reconnected to their more human aspects, so the art style shifts back to a more vivid and nuanced approach like the rest of the panels. The art matches the tone of the conversation, and shows how Vonnie and Asmodea start off thinking like Dark Scientists, but end up closer to their human side by the end of the scene. (Which I think has been done very well here, great work Sen 🙌)
This is cute and wholesome and also creepy. I love it.
how is this straight and gay at the same time, are you a witch?
Asmodea 1 just got a heck of an influx of epiphanies all at once. I suspect if Vonnie had waited but a moment then it would have been explained to her that Elith (Lilith/Asmodea 3) would also get the memory udpate and know whats going on.
I feel like crying, and I don't even know why. So many subtle, beautiful things just crept up and hit me in the feels, one after another. This was definitely a page worth waiting for.
Absolutely 100% this
Stunning revelations to our favourite villains (Melchior doesn't count), and I adore your backgrounds here! A gorgeous nighttime cityscape in particular.
The good guys have got as far as Be Gay Do Crimes and the bad guys have now become *literally too gay to do their crimes*, this is amazing :)
So *THAT"S* how they do it! I was wondering how people could be "recast." Volo just takes their archetype card and attaches it to someone else, right? And everyone just sees them as whatever the card is instead of themselves? This is getting more interesting by the minute. I wonder if Balthazar is going to be recast or discarded.
It explains Bogan's face heel turn - it was so abrupt, and so total, he was a caricature afterwards.
Vonnie chose soup :3
Soup is *so* much better than violence :)