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Eric: With my luck, there will now be a seven week hiatus.
(From Road Waffles. Click on the thumbnail for full sized kidn-ow!)
So, there's a number of things I expect from the third volume of Road Waffles, currently in progress. I expect occasional nudity. I expect a certain war between the libertine and the repressed. I expect everyone to be pretty much trying to act nicely except for the actively evil or deranged. I expect more wing jokes.
I don't expect Nicotina to get stabbed in the kidney by an unknown assailant, then pushed overboard and left to die. I mean, it's just not at all what was in my itinerary.
Eight pieces together his stories like jazz music. He finds good melodies, and then he plays up and down the changes on them. I can't tell you why I loved "And then she got up and danced," but I did. Deeply. That was a riff, played off the theme, and it was played well.
It's easy to forget, in the lush pencilwork and the bits of anarchy, that there is in fact a story going on here. Today's strip was shocking, because it was unexpected. But it should have been expected. It was in the melody line.
What next week will bring, I dunno. But I'm hooked. I'm always hooked. Damn Eight and his delicious cocaine.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at December 9, 2005 4:50 PM
Comments
Comment from: Brendan posted at December 9, 2005 5:02 PM
Anyone can die. No coming back.
Comment from: Clint H posted at December 9, 2005 5:11 PM
Eight is a serious (and unfortunately unrecognized) talent, I wish someone with money would discover him. I'd love to see all of Road Waffle compiled in a paperback.
Comment from: Clint H posted at December 9, 2005 5:12 PM
And actually, it looks like she took it in a lung.
Comment from: Tangent posted at December 9, 2005 7:13 PM
So, someone decided to permanently kick the nicotine habit?
*flrrd*
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 9, 2005 7:17 PM
Dick Van Dyke taught me that the best way to assassinate someone with stealth is to sneak up from behind and stab them in the kidney because the pain is so intense they won't be able to scream out.
Of course my own personal prefered method of assassination is to kill people by old age and natural causes. It's extremely difficult to trace it back to you. As I always say, you can do it the right way or you can do it the fast way. I'm currently under contract to assassinate every political figure in the world. If some bozo or accident happens to beat me to it, well that's just a bonus really.
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 9, 2005 7:31 PM
Ghastly: That also appears to be the way to ensure that you'll nearly always hit your target. Great setup you've got there!
Comment from: Archon Divinus posted at December 9, 2005 8:54 PM
Thank you Eric. Between you and the Webcomics Examiner best of list (which I found because of you), I have 10 new comics I am either reading trough right now, and or have added to my trawl.
Also, the thank yoou at the begining was not sarcastic. I was looking for something new to read, and I got it in spades.
Comment from: Tice with a J posted at December 9, 2005 10:21 PM
Your task might not be as easy as it seems, Ghastly. Jesus is a political figure, and he successfully came back from the dead. Not to mention Tupac, who apparently did the same thing, or Hitler, who has turned into an immortal zombie.
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 9, 2005 11:33 PM
As long as they die once I still get paid.
Comment from: quiller posted at December 9, 2005 11:36 PM
Next comic is out already, by the way.
Comment from: miyaa posted at December 10, 2005 3:43 AM
First of all, I had no idea Dick Van Dyke was such a talented assassin. (Then again, I did watch the Kill Bill movies back to back. Really love Chiaki Kuriyama, but that's another thread.)
Do you think guys think Road Waffles is better as a black & white strip or as a color strip? I think he's better with black and white than with color.
Comment from: quiller posted at December 10, 2005 4:26 AM
Black and white is definitely Eight's medium. He's very expressive in it, and a lot of his line work would be covered up in color to the detriment of the picture.
Comment from: miyaa posted at December 11, 2005 1:26 AM
I'm curious, is Eight's name really Eight, or is that just his nickname?
(Naming someone a day of the week is one thing, naming him after a number is something else entirely.)
Comment from: J.(Channing)Wells posted at December 11, 2005 7:56 AM
I got into Road Waffles a long time ago. I thought that the writing was really very clever, that the art was... okay, but well-suited to the tasks the cartoonist wanted it to do, and that the whole thing was erratic, exciting and edgy. I was willing to keep up with it, even when the plot went in some strange directions, and probably would have continued to keep up with it had it not been for the fact that I really began to detest Haley after a while. I mean, I can appreciate a well-drawn character, and she was, but after a time she started getting so despicable that it wasn't fun anymore. And then the whole thing stopped cold in a sequence I didn't wholly understand and it kind of dropped off the face of my personal webcomics radar.
...and now it's back. If this is the same Haley she's done a lot of growing up. I don't know if I haven't seen enough strips yet (curse my slow home dialup, NSFW strips are always really hard to push through without benefit of office broadband) and she's really as odious as before, just hiding it well, or whether there's been some massive sea-change in the character. As I said, I'm not coming from a position of good information here yet.
Comment from: Robin Z posted at December 11, 2005 8:13 AM
Actually, the comic rebooted since the last story with Haley, although the main character is supposed to be an alternate of her. I never finished reading the old archives, though, so I couldn't tell you how similar the characters are.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 11, 2005 1:19 PM
This is actually "Road Waffles III" at this point. The cast is entirely different than the original Road Waffles, which also had a different cast (except for one space adventure) from the cast of Road Waffles II.
The lead is not directly a Haley of any stripe but is instead Jen Leahey, an alternate version of Haley (thus the similar appearance) who was created out of whole cloth by the narrator to set her on her journey. The narrator gave her a boon. She asked for wins. As a result... well, Jen has wings.
Comment from: Kirath posted at December 12, 2005 10:23 AM
From the strip following the one snarked:
"LASS OVERBOARD!"
I don't even know why that makes me laugh so hard.
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