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This page is taking me longer than I expected. In the spirit of getting enough sleep AND not missing a deadline, here’s my final pencils (last stage before inking) with with word bubbles. I’ll upload the final version later today.
And yes, I did steal this technique from Gisele Lagace, who draws several of my favorite webcomics and occasionally delays inks as well.
Edit: The page is finished now. Hooray!
Also, for those of you who don’t know, a Les Paul Custom is a very nice but very expensive guitar. Most people will tell you to never buy a guitar like that without trying it out in person first, because guitars vary so much, individually. Others will tell you that the factories are consistent enough that a good setup will get about any guitar playing perfectly for you. Who is right? Who knows.
Now she’s speaking Rachel. 🙂
And that’s a lot of bottles! No wonder it took a while from that point of view.
Also I don’t know about guitars, having only played a bit of acoustic guitar in my youth. But I can say that with pistols, you definitely should at least hold them before buying. One that works for someone can be completely wrong for someone else. And if you don’t feel comfortable with your weapon, you won’t be able to compete at full capacity.
Me for example I favour the Hämmerli 280. Others the 215, which I can’t show my true potential with. Even more: When it comes to competitions with army pistols, I favour the SIG P220 over the P210. Even though the 210 is slightly more precise, more durable and has the lighter trigger weight. But for my taste it’s a bit too heavy and to slim. I don’t feel fully comfortable with it and hence achieve worse results with it, even though it is actually the better gun.
So yeah, long story short: If you’re going to spend a good amount of money on something, make sure you’re actually comfortable with what you get first.
Yeah, there are often differences in similar things that only a true expert would even notice, let alone make a decision based on them. Thus, both Elaine’s example and yours are perfect analogies. And I love the dawning understanding in Rachel’s expression, and the way her “Oh” is almost lost in the dialog bubble-beautifully done, Phil, and well worth waiting for. 🙂
Is there much variation between individual pistols of the same make and model? That is what the implication is, here. Guitars are made of wood and largely by hand (though with the assistance of all sorts of jigs and CNC machines and whatnot), so they can vary quite a lot in feel from unit to unit, even in the same batch.
Can you say the same about two bottles of gin in the same batch? Well…
Same make and model… Depends on how old they are, how often used, how well attended to and if someone has made modifications to it. With two coming right of the line, see next comic.