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heroofthreefaces:animate-mush:heroofthreefaces:animate-mush:heroofthreefaces:Preview panel only. Click here for full cartoon. Or see the on-site navigation tutorial. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons linked at 10:00 Central US are new. Cartoons at 22:00 are from the archive.Thanks for reading. [Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link. Arthur and Ford of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy stand talking. Ford is saying, “Hey, Arthur, what’s a Vogon’s favorite spice?” Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero of Three Faces site. End description.] Sick and wrong sir!I know! I first drew this gag for my pencil dailies in the 90s, and it takes me twenty years to think of using it for triangles too?? What’s the matter with me. (Wait a minute. Checking something… Okay, before drawing this I did look through my spreadsheet to verify I hadn’t already used this gag in pencil or triangle online fanfiction. But I forgot until this moment that I also did an HHGG week at AKOTAS and, checking, I find the gag is there. So it’s been ten years, not more’n twenty, since I last drew this gag, and at Three Faces isn’t its first online appearance. But that’s okay because it’s already publicly stated at Three Faces that some gags I can’t bear not to include in whatever’s my currrent ongoing project.) Thanks for reading. Question: why Ford and not Zaphod? It seems more his style of casual cruelty…oh, but Zaphod wouldn’t know what tarragon isAlso I think it’s that Ford hasn’t thought it through enough to realize how it comes across. This is the same guy who also said to Arthur, well I can’t find an online transcript of what he said so this isn’t verbatim but, “I think ‘mostly harmless’ is a pretty good writeup for a blob of molten scrag hanging in space!” Also Zaphod probably doesn’t know what tarragon is. I mean, he might, if Trillian liked it and brought some along. If she told him what it was and explained to him what it was for. No, no, you’re right, Zaphod would never ever have the slightest idea what tarragon is. Ford says that in anger though, as the climax of an argument, which in turn stems from his own embarrassment - and that line is the moment he realizes he’s gone too far and they both huff off for a moment and come back more conciliatory. So that line is noteworthy because it’s anomalous - in much the same way that Ace gets angry enough to hurl racial slurs at Shiu Yuing while they are fighting in the chalk circle in “Battlefield,” which would typically be entirely OOCMy read on Ford is that he genuinely likes Arthur and generally takes efforts to be sympathetic but eventually just gets a little tired of dealing with himWhereas Zaphod calls him “monkey” as a matter of course because he thinks it’s funny. And it gets a rise out of him, so picking on Arthur is waaaay more rewarding than picking on Eddie or Marvin[I’m not trying to argue or win or anything, you’ve just got me Thinking]On the topic, I think I really appreciate the absence of an Arthur/Trillian/Zaphod love triangle, despite the set-up. Arthur could so easily have fallen into the Dogged Nice Guy whose girl was stolen by the Jerk Jock trope, and he just…doesn’t. They’re completely unshippable - which is to say they are not written in any sort of way to encourage that reaction in the audience - Arthur’s only reasonable pairing is that elusive cup of tea. So well done there. This was perhaps the most significant misstep of the movie adaptation -- source link
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