Whose mind is it anyway?

Chronosome · Post by **Chronosome** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:43 pm

Every time I see "Emprah" I think of Oprah in a toga.

So, who would we cast in a "Whose Mind Is It Anyway" movie? It seems like this would translate really well into flickness.

I'm thinking Dennis Leary* as Sean and Carol Kane as Sophie.

*not Miller.

GlenSS · Post by **GlenSS** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:16 pm

During her childhood, Suzanne Vega once had a girl walk up to her ready to fight and say, "Sally sez you called me a hora". Vega was confused and the girl decided Sally was a liar and left.

Much later, Vega realized that if the girl had said "ho", then she would have understood the question, and gotten beat up.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:52 pm

I notice the background has gotten darker. a nice touch.

which got me thinking... using background effects isn't considered much in webcomics. you put your Jpegs and Gifs on a page, get a tiled wallpaper that doesn't clash with the colors, and that's it. you can't do a whole lot with a background, but you can add in subtle effects. I remember a few Leisuretown comics that used backgrounds in interesting ways, such as sound effects. ah well I'm rambling here.

CleverUserName01 · Post by **CleverUserName01** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:48 pm

Chronosome wrote:I'm thinking Dennis Miller as Sean and Carol Kane as Sophie.

Hmm...wrong Dennis, I'd say. Beantown native Dennis Leary seems like the obvious choice.

Speaking of movies...

"I like the way you twok."
"...I like the way you tahk, too."

Intentional or unintentional reference to Sling Blade?

Chronosome · Post by **Chronosome** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 4:07 pm

CleverUserName01 wrote:
Chronosome wrote:I'm thinking Dennis Miller as Sean and Carol Kane as Sophie.
Hmm...wrong Dennis, I'd say. Beantown native Dennis Leary seems like the obvious choice.

Hahaha...that's who I meant!
Just a case of fingers and brain not sync-ing up.

Colonel Ives · Post by **Colonel Ives** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:22 am

Christ, just freeze to death already.

Sunnan · Post by **Sunnan** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:23 am

Who's mind is it anyway is one of my favourite MI's yet, but I don't like the format with the page-flipping. I guess.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:05 pm

really nit-picky detail time!

<img src=http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-25/zz-p1.jpg>
this panel on page 6 needs a left border

just noticed that now. oh wait, spotted another one...

the bottom of page 7, where the word balloons are connected between the panels (second line from bottom), the first panel needs to be a pixel wider. right now it leaves a tiny gap between it and the connecting "bridge." really small, but it's noticable.

zerofoks · Post by **zerofoks** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:46 am

Haze wrote: I remember a few Leisuretown comics that used backgrounds in interesting ways, such as sound effects. ah well I'm rambling here.

I miss Leisuretown. The internet truly is poorer off without it.

zerofoks · Post by **zerofoks** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:08 pm

We'll be taking Easter Sunday off.
Please join us Monday for more improv.

Identifying too much with your own characters here, Mr. McCloud?

gareis · Post by **gareis** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:00 pm

With his family, not his characters, I'm sure.

How would you guys like to see this end? Tomorrow morning, Sean knocking on the door and Sophie answering? Shall they stroll off into the sunset pushing one shopping cart between them? Sit down in the park and start reading? Shall we list a bunch and then demand that Scott McCloud surprise us with something we haven't mentioned just to cramp his creativity?

pege · Post by **pege** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:01 pm

gareis wrote: How would you guys like to see this end?

Everything which comes into my mind(s?) is much longer than just a few panels. I'd wish them that they meet again and find some way to improve their lives. This means that they must deal somehow with the other two minds - which needs time.

Up to now, only one mind of each have met. The other two have only been observers, but they also need to know each other. The discussion between the four may well take as much time as we have seen up to now.

I hope that Scott will not force an end but take as much time as the story needs.

Peter

Penner Theologius Pott · Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:29 pm

pege wrote:
gareis wrote: How would you guys like to see this end?
Everything which comes into my mind(s?) is much longer than just a few panels. I'd wish them that they meet again and find some way to improve their lives. This means that they must deal somehow with the other two minds - which needs time.

Peter

Er, does it?

Not intending to open a can of worms here, but do they necessarily need to be "fixed" to become more "normal" in order to find happiness?

pege. · Post by **pege.** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:55 pm

Penner Theologius wrote: Not intending to open a can of worms here, but do they necessarily need to be "fixed" to become more "normal" in order to find happiness?

Not really. That's why I wrote "deal with" rather than "fix".

It is perfectly okay when all four of them find their happiness.

Peter

kaos_de_moria · Post by **kaos_de_moria** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:35 am

Penner Theologius Pott wrote:
pege wrote:
gareis wrote: How would you guys like to see this end?
Everything which comes into my mind(s?) is much longer than just a few panels. I'd wish them that they meet again and find some way to improve their lives. This means that they must deal somehow with the other two minds - which needs time.

Peter
Er, does it?

Not intending to open a can of worms here, but do they necessarily need to be "fixed" to become more "normal" in order to find happiness?

i think you got that wrong. pege wants to say, they have to deal with the others second mind. they need to get along with both minds of their potential partner and not only with one of them.although the guy seems to have a rather bad 2nd mind whereas the girl has a more supportive one. (sorry for not remembering the names.)

kaos

pege · Post by **pege** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:50 am

kaos_de_moria wrote: i think you got that wrong. pege wants to say, they have to deal with the others second mind. they need to get along with both minds of their potential partner and not only with one of them.although the guy seems to have a rather bad 2nd mind whereas the girl has a more supportive one. (sorry for not remembering the names.)

Exactly.

Peter

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 4:04 pm

Why does Sean need a parker? He could just huddle for warmth with his other personality

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I still want to know what's in that shopping-cart. And I still think the good Padre looks like an unshaved Scott.

Ninus Pritaeus wrote:Ah, Tiberius, hiding out on the Isle of Capreae, swimming in a pool with young, naked girls and boys. First in a long line of Imperial pervs.

No one beats his successor, Caligula, who turned to the Imperial Place into a brothel in order to raise money.

Oh, and Neil Gaiman's favorite, Heliogabolus, was a sick littlle bastid, also.

GlenSS wrote:During her childhood, Suzanne Vega once had a girl walk up to her ready to fight and say, "Sally sez you called me a hora". Vega was confused and the girl decided Sally was a liar and left.

Much later, Vega realized that if the girl had said "ho", then she would have understood the question, and gotten beat up.

Hmmm, maybe Sally thought Susan was a Jewish dance, done at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. Everybody, join hands, and circle.

Besides, everyone knows the proper way to pronounce "whore" is hoowah

Chronosome wrote:Every time I see "Emprah" I think of Oprah in a toga.

Gee, thanks for putting that horendous image in my brain. Do they make bed sheets that big?

Chronosome wrote:I'm thinking Dennis Leary as Sean

I'm not sure. I mean I haven't seen Sean smoke one cigarette. Of coure, if cigarette taxes are as ludicrously high in Boston as they are here in NYC, then he probably can't afford a pack. Then again, he can always find a half-smoked butt on the street. (yecch!)

Parke Matru · Post by **Parke Matru** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:47 pm

I suddenly remember a legal case I read about a while back where a guy with multiple personality disorder was charged with raping a girl with multiple personality disorder, and his defense was that they each had one personality consenting at the time . . .

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:47 pm

Cheeky.

alschroeder · Post by **alschroeder** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:17 pm

Parke Matru wrote:I suddenly remember a legal case I read about a while back where a guy with multiple personality disorder was charged with raping a girl with multiple personality disorder, and his defense was that they each had one personality consenting at the time . . .

And then there was THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN, by Daniel Keyes of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON fame, a true story about a multiple personality person who raped a girl---but the personality who did so was one of his FEMALE personalities---who was a lesbian.
Or that's what Billy Milligan said, anyway.---Al

GlenSS · Post by **GlenSS** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:00 pm

I love it that Scott included a person crossing the street to avoid our hero.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:57 pm

Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed, as well.

The person in the red jacket is walking in the street though. He could get hit by a car. Then again, I don't see any cars in the street. 'S'matta, nobody drives in Boston when it starts to snow?

Me, I never cross the street when I see some crazy homless guy. I just walk right past them. Don't bother me none. No whacked-out vagrant muttering to himself is going to make me alter my course. In my town, I'd have to cross the street every other minute, if that was the case. Plus, I might get run over, especially the way the cabbies drive.

Speaking of Boston, the war begins tomorrow night at Fenway. Prime time, national TV, baby. Turn down the sound so you don't have to hear Tim McCarver prattle on like a moron. 1918!

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:43 pm

Hell, I'd engage him in conversation. Figure if we ever get into an argument, at least one guy will be on my side.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:21 pm

at first I thought the ending was abrupt, but I went back and read the whole thing from the beginning and realized it wasn't as long as I thought. so I changed my mind and I think the ending works pretty well.

a really charming and well done comic. it's the kind of story where if Scott ever decides to print it on paper and sell it, I'd buy a copy. if not, I'll just have to throw more pennies at the next round of MI title voting! :)

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