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Posts Tagged ‘Kwan’
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This was actually an easy image to create, but when it came time to upload the image I discovered I made a mistake naming the file (2010-06-29 Seoul Temple instead the proper 2010-06-30). Frustrating! It took four attempts and yelling at the computer to get it right. The thumbs still don’t generate properly. This is a planning problem. I outlined before, but I didn’t write in the file names during the planning phase. This won’t happen again.
This comic stages an explanation about how the guys became friends. Kwan is the lynchpin. That will become apparent later as will the relationships between the four of them. I love the Seoul Temple and I wanted to start here. The problem with the top shot is that missionaries do not go to the Seoul Temple until the end of their missions (Seoul West). So, this shot forces some of the story: when they go home and when they enter the MTC.
The second panel is one I will keep working on. I do not like how Kwan’s wife looks. She looks too much like horse-faced Nellie from the Home on the Prairie television show. Not that she’s ugly, it’s just that horse-facedness is not a noted Korean characteristic. I like the p1 from “District Meeting (06/23/2010)” better. My son likes this one better, because p1 in “District Meeting” looks like an evil, sniveling, emo manga character. That’s his opinion. Obviously, I need to work on her some more.
When I was a kid, we had a rusty, old, reel-mower. I hated the thing, because it was heavy and not powered like the electric ones dad could sign out on whichever army post we were on. The electric-mowers were quiet, bright orange, and the only difficulty was making sure you didn’t run over the hundred foot extension cord. The reel-mower cut the grass fine, but I would have to mow over the same patch a couple times and sometimes in those hot Oklahoma summer’s the grass would go through growth spurts and I would have to go over the yard from multiple angles just to keep the grass from laying down under the blades. When we moved to Utah, we didn’t have access to the electric-mowers. The gas-mowers were unreliable at best, but that rusty-reel mower always worked even if it gave me blisters and splinters.
Recently, I’ve seen reel-mowers pop up in the media. In the background or as the subject of articles. This is fantastic considering the damage fossil fuels do to the environment. This post is a continuation of my first comic “Send Off the Clowns” (06/19/2010). Kwan’s yard is Korean in that there is not a lot of grass. Mostly there are vegetable gardens or elevated spots to eat sam-gyup-sal or whatever. Johnson, however, has a giant yard and wants to keep it short and mown quickly. He can’t miss the chance to brag. Honestly, isn’t that the point of riding-mowers in the ‘burbs anyway?
