Tag: basketball

Delivering Darin

Happy birthday, dear Darin. In your honor, TB is showcasing his full array of fancy, non-hand drawn visual effects:

  • Panel 1: whenever an image is displayed on a screen or is behind glass, it must be faded and have highlights streaking across it (and what does today’s panel 1 have to do with the rest of the strip? ).
  • Panel 2: when lit candles are depicted, apply a glowing effect to suggest an arc welder’s blinding glare.
  • Panel 4: When depicting past events, if photo-album corners are not used, make the colors even more washed-out and muddy than usual, and apply halftone dots over all.
Bonus (hand-drawn) visual effect: check out how Darin’s adoptive dad Fred Fairgood ages about twenty years between panels 2 and 5!

Upside Yo' Head

I was a band geek in high school, not a jock, so I have to ask: do high school athletes wear uniforms at practice? “Uniform” in the adjective, meaning “identical or consistent; without variations in detail”. Because I’m looking at four teammates wearing four different outfits. From left to right: Earl Tatum sports a softball jersey; Ponytail Chick is in red; Summer opts for a plain white tee; and Kei$ha actually wears a basketball singlet.

I guess the kids still say “chill”, but what person under 50 70 uses “needle” as a verb? And what human being of any age would speak that line in panel 2?

The Sports is Saved

I have no idea why everyone had to leave the country club and travel to Montoni’s, in sleeting weather no less, to tally up the take from the “Save the Sports” raffle. To the astonishment of no one who reads this blog, the fundraiser was a huge success. Future prom couple Summer and Keisha throw discretion to the wind and use the occasion to engage in a PDA*.

(*Public display of affection)