# 47 Turn-A-Ment : And Susan Awaits…
Aug18
Hey kids, I don’t see myself as BJ’s lord… I don’t know why he said that… it kinda just came out of center field.
Just think of me as a guy who was in the right place, at the right time, with a +5 will to create… oh, and Shadow too. 🙂
~we laugh maniacally~
~and then we say, “Let there be votes.”~
Sincerely,
BACH-MANN & Shhadow
“Last thing I remember, I was running for the door / I had to find a passage back to the place I was before…”
Poor Red he’s bating for the other team against his will.
I’m confuse on the part where Red is looking like his previous self while his reflection looks like his current gender. Did he gave himself a haircut while in the bathroom? I can’t help but think that it should be the other way around to make sense.
Also, shouldn’t Melvin be calling his mom, mom? Guess they’re both on first name basis.
I think the male version is what Red feels like, when she sees her reflection, it is that of her female self and what he/she has to face.
In Quantum Leap as well as one episode of Weird Science the tv series, the mirror shows how everyone else sees you.
In Poltergiest, the mirror shows you ripping off your face.
In Beetlejuice, the mirror doesn’t work for you if you’re dead.
(As shown by moving the horse figurine in front of the mirror.)
Could be Susan is his Step-Mom? It’d make sense for them to be on a first name basis in that case…
…I’m confused in general on this strip.
I hope this isn’t the format for the rest of the comic. It’s cluttered and hard to follow. :/ I was enjoying the comic up until this out-of-panel-speech thing. The sequential storytelling is awkward and confusing.
Still good, I just hope it gets better.
Panel 2 is the only panel which appears cluttered and I think it’s supposed to. BJ is having a difficult time with his mind full of thoughts he’s trying to surpress. Until he gets that under control, he won’t be able to walk comfortably. Looks like BACH-MANN sent in reinforcements though….that should help.
I don’t just mean this page.
Personally, I like the dialog in the borders, because it leaves the image uncluttered. (I’ve spoken before of a similar technique used by Vaughn Bode, the artist for the Cheech Wizard strip.)
But there is something about the story flow that’s very confusing. I always have to study the strip for awhile and read the comments to figure out what the heck is going on.
Agreement. It’s as if every third panel had been erased. Heh, Cheech Wizard, I haven’t thought of, or seen, that strip in ages! Always laughed at Razzberry.
All we get is a black silo wet of Susan, but, it look like the towel off and she naked too. BJ is really having a problem or wet dream in real life.
I just knottiest in the other circle other than the one where Susan naked, She blowing a kiss too.
I think the 2 bubbles are BJ’s fantasy visions, not real life. It looks like Kazom hit him with a cookie to break the lust spell. Beyond that, I’m confused about the guy with the horned helmet swinging the mace (a deus ex machina I suppose) and the evil monkey doll or whatever.
That is Bach-Mann wrecking the fifth wall in order to answer BJ’s plea to help him snap out of his lust fog.
I think. See BACH-MANNs post under the comic.
@ranck- As far as the monkey doll. It kinda looks like Kazom is putting the clothing from the stuffed dude on. I’m assuming this because Kazom is wearing a top and weremonkey isn’t.
Needs more exposition. Never thought I’d say that, but this is just confusing. Exposit more, or at least throw up an author’s “cliff notes” explanation under the comic.
This is what I was saying before. The focus seems to be on the wrong thing for most panels, and I feel that when the panels have to be numbered in order to follow them, it just means you’re not conveying the sequence through the art.
Should I be worried that he called his mum “Susan” instead of “Mom”
See Zafnak’s reply to Bad Taiming’s post, where he suggests that Susan is Melvin’s step-mom.
Alternatively, Melvin may be operating under Kazom’s influence; he always refers to Mrs. Clark as “Susan”, and has referred to her that way in Melvin’s presence while he was unconscious or hypnotized. See, for example, the first panel of this very strip. Or this one, where Kazom and Melvin begin making breakfast for Mrs. Clark.