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Dryunya wrote:2. I don't remember who thought that the echoes would reveal the comic pages, but he wins all the internets.

Wow. I was actually right:

Dekso wrote:(It could be possible when scanned, it gives you the whole comic page)

Edit: Not sure I like Don's look either, I was thinking he was walking around in his armour with his sword.

Dekso wrote:Edit: Not sure I like Don's look either, I was thinking he was walking around in his armour with his sword.

Um... You do realize that in that case he would end up in a loony bin by day two, right?

He mentioned in his tweets that he'd bought some orange and blue clothes. I was expecting something more outlandish.

Dryunya wrote:Um... You do realize that in that case he would end up in a loony bin by day two, right?

Yeah well... him do everything that he's done just would have been so much funnier if he was wearing his normal clothes. :p

Does it bother anyone else that Mr. Administrator is on the front of "Off The Top Of My Head," the book Romeo is reading in the last panel?

Wysp wrote:Does it bother anyone else that Mr. Administrator is on the front of "Off The Top Of My Head," the book Romeo is reading in the last panel?

Looks like the back cover. I guessed that Mr. Administrator is the author of that book.

Which raises the question of why is the front blank? And I thought Mr. A couldn't make fiction?

It's not that unusual for books to have plain covers, especially in hardback. But the "Mr. A can't create fiction" problem is interesting. Of course, the book isn't necessarily a work of fiction.

That one appeared to still have the dust-jacket on, which typically has some kind of artwork. The cover was entirely blank.

I have a friend who believes you can't translate mystery stories into comics, because details the artist chooses to include or exclude arbitrarily, simplifications for the sake of artistic shortcuts, can take on a new and unintended meaning as the reader searches for clues.

Suffice it to say: I think the drawing of the book was probably deemed sufficient for its purpose. The detail of Mr. A on the back is definitely there for a reason, but the reason might just be as a little joke for the readers who recognize it. If Mr. A is a significant detail, we'll find more evidence elsewhere, presumably in other pages of the comic.

Basically, I don't think the drawing of the book is detailed enough for us to really tell whether the jacket is there or what the front cover looks like. And if there is more going on with regard to the book, I'm sure we'll find more evidence related to this mystery in time.

narrativedilettante wrote:I have a friend who believes you can't translate mystery stories into comics, because details the artist chooses to include or exclude arbitrarily, simplifications for the sake of artistic shortcuts, can take on a new and unintended meaning as the reader searches for clues.

What about stories that were originally comics? Or manga? Like Detective Conan?

IslaKariese wrote:

narrativedilettante wrote:I have a friend who believes you can't translate mystery stories into comics, because details the artist chooses to include or exclude arbitrarily, simplifications for the sake of artistic shortcuts, can take on a new and unintended meaning as the reader searches for clues.

What about stories that were originally comics? Or manga? Like Detective Conan?

I recently watched a bunch of detective anime series similar to that (Conan is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long for me right now) and I noticed how friggin HARD it was for them to convey the case in the right way. I read the light novel versions of the story, and it was great, but the anime, while cool, was always either pretty damn easy or physically impossible without wild guesses.

Wysp wrote:Does it bother anyone else that Mr. Administrator is on the front of "Off The Top Of My Head," the book Romeo is reading in the last panel?

It's just an Epileptic Tree on my part, but the book's title only contains words that have 4 letters or less - like "THE WALL TED FALL". It translates to 0-15-6-6 0-20-8-5 0-20-15-16 0-0-15-6 0-0-13-25 8-5-1-4. I have no idea why I'm saying this, especially considering that I dismissed the man on the cover as just some random person.

UPD: Also, there is an actual book with that title.

Probably a joke. The videos of Mr. A usually cut off the top of his head.

NeverSlender wrote:Probably a joke. The videos of Mr. A usually cut off the top of his head.

Or just don't show the top.

However, we know that Mr. A has numbers tattooed permanently on his forehead, thanks to Mind Screw.

Dryunya wrote:UPD: Also, there is an actual book with that title.

I already commented on that when the comic first appeared. There is also a poetry book and one other book by the same name.