I’ve a hunch that Grace is in for a rude awakening when everyone else shows kindness and concern for Randie, leaving Grace (once again) on the outside looking in. *sigh* Too bad. Grace needs something to shake her out of her nastiness.
Randie has trouble with coming up with a good comeback… often she’ll come up with a good reply later while she’s still stewing on the matter… Oh, wait….that’s me. But I like your response mcduff.
I watched Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the other night… talk about sharp wits!
Yah, Pete… Grace might just need a little grace somewhere down the road… maybe Randie will be the one to give it… that’d be the rub.
When I first started the comic strip, I was living near Cannery Row (of John Steinbeck fame)… Randie, my starving artist hero, who’s often on the skids… didn’t exactly live in a great neighborhood… but she lives near the ocean. AND, deciding to “draw what you know”, I put her near “The Row”… and Squid sounding like skid… you get the idea.
I’m glad that you are enjoying Squid. If you want to see the very beginnings of the comic, just above the comic strip is a tab that says “older squids” … that’ll take you to Webcomicsnation.com where the comic first got started. Don’t laugh at my first drawings… ok, you can.
I prefer Taming of the Shrew for snappy dialogue by Shakespeare (Groucho Marx is still the king of the snappy comeback, of course, and yes, as an English major named M(a)cDuff, I’m required to know Shakespeare by law :).
And yeah, Randie isn’t the snappy comeback type. Ryan might, depending on how quick he is at generating dialogue.
My personal favourite way to annoy the grouches is to take things positively and at face value. My response to Grace would be something like. “Aww, you’re concerned about me, Grace! You care! C’mon, give me a hug!” Then you grin as the sourpuss retreats, bested by sunshine.
The catty response is, of course. “What happened to your face, Grace? Oh, right, you always look like that…”
Not that I try to say such things, but the back of my brain always supplies them up…
I’ve a hunch that Grace is in for a rude awakening when everyone else shows kindness and concern for Randie, leaving Grace (once again) on the outside looking in. *sigh* Too bad. Grace needs something to shake her out of her nastiness.
I’ve an industrial-sized paint mixer here…
Randie has trouble with coming up with a good comeback… often she’ll come up with a good reply later while she’s still stewing on the matter… Oh, wait….that’s me. But I like your response mcduff.
I watched Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the other night… talk about sharp wits!
Yah, Pete… Grace might just need a little grace somewhere down the road… maybe Randie will be the one to give it… that’d be the rub.
I dunno, some people like that tough girl look 🙂
nice silent fury in the 3rd panel and really fuming in the last one. great!
Brig, how did you come up with the name for “Squid Row”? I absolutely love your comic – your characters are so easy to get attached to!
When I first started the comic strip, I was living near Cannery Row (of John Steinbeck fame)… Randie, my starving artist hero, who’s often on the skids… didn’t exactly live in a great neighborhood… but she lives near the ocean. AND, deciding to “draw what you know”, I put her near “The Row”… and Squid sounding like skid… you get the idea.
I’m glad that you are enjoying Squid. If you want to see the very beginnings of the comic, just above the comic strip is a tab that says “older squids” … that’ll take you to Webcomicsnation.com where the comic first got started. Don’t laugh at my first drawings… ok, you can.
I prefer Taming of the Shrew for snappy dialogue by Shakespeare (Groucho Marx is still the king of the snappy comeback, of course, and yes, as an English major named M(a)cDuff, I’m required to know Shakespeare by law :).
And yeah, Randie isn’t the snappy comeback type. Ryan might, depending on how quick he is at generating dialogue.
My personal favourite way to annoy the grouches is to take things positively and at face value. My response to Grace would be something like. “Aww, you’re concerned about me, Grace! You care! C’mon, give me a hug!” Then you grin as the sourpuss retreats, bested by sunshine.