Wednesday, 26 June 2013

I want Can-D


I'm trying something a little different here, layout-wise, trying to do something which makes better use of the storytelling techniques of comics. Let me know if you think it works... or doesn't.
Can-D, if you're interested, is named after a similar drug that appears in the work of Phillip K. Dick, notably "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldrich".
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5 comments:

  1. Beyogi26 June 2013 at 11:57

    Um... I think the way you did it before was better. I need to open the pictures in an extra window, need to zoom in to be able to read the text and am not quite sure in what direction I should read them. I liked the old style better.

    Anyway, interesting drug. Did she switch bodies, or did that drug somehow turn his body into a girlbody?

    Thank you for your captivating captions,
    Beyogi

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  2. Rachel Terzanelle28 June 2013 at 03:01

    Okay, that's good to know. The old format's easier to do, at least. But I may try to do this again at some point in the future.
    As for how the drug works.... well, in the original story (by PKD) you had all these colonists on Mars who played with dolls while taking the drug. While they were on Can-D, they became the dolls, and got to live an idealised life back on Earth, rather than face the hardship of their normal life. So I suppose our narrator is 'really' just flopping around in his room somewhere hallucinating. I suppose it all depends by what you mean by 'real'...

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  3. Shannon_25258 July 2013 at 13:24

    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch was one of the first sci-fi stories I ever read, and I still have a soft spot for it. I never thought I'd see a TG caption based on it, but you did a great job with this story. "What's real," indeed?

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  4. Unknown30 July 2013 at 06:13

    Amazing! I loved this one!!! Hooked! I want that drug, badly!!!

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  5. Rachel Terzanelle11 August 2013 at 05:09

    Glad you both liked it. What did you think of the new, comic-style format?
    Shannon - quite a Dick fan myself, and I'm glad I managed to surprise you.

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