I thought using another webcomic as the TV show Amanda was watching would be fun, so I asked my friend Jade Griffin if I could appropriate a couple of her strips from the comic she does alongside her husband Trevor Black, Shards.
Thank you for the loaner, Jade! 😀
Amanda is eating a pink strawberry-flavored cereal that may or may not have Frankenstein's Monster as a mascot.
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Had a large chunk of time passed? I feel like Amanda’s hair is super long her in relation to her pigtails.
You’d be amazed how long hair is or isn’t compared to how you’d think it should look in or out of pigtails or a ponytail. As someone who wears her hair back in a ponytail and wore pigtails when younger, Amanda’s hair looks accurate.
Well, my hair is down passed my lower back and when I put it up it seems shorter, but not a whole lot shorter. So to me it seems like her hair is really long compared to how it is when it’s tied up.
Funny, I felt like Andi was the one with the shorter hair because of her bangs
The Gud-Wyf loses about 1/3 of the length when she braids up in the A.M. Could be 40% if she braids it tightly.
Fair enough but I meant that it looks like Andi cut one of her bangs off
I’m pretty sure that she just usually parts her bangs to the side, and in this pic they aren’t styled so all of her bang hair is pushed to one side.
If I put my hair in a ponytail/pigtails low, then it only looks an inch or two shorter. Putting it up in two high pigtails like Amanda’s makes it look about 6-8″ shorter, depending on whether I use plain rubberbands or scrunchies. A high back ponytail looks 8-10″ shorter.
No, her hair is about the right length for her pigtails, especially with how high she wears them… Trust me on this (we had an earlier discussion of relative hair length vs. pigtails the first time she wore it down if you want to check that out.)
~Owner of mid-thigh length hair.
Quick, Andi, you need to remember whether today’s a school day or not before you decide whether to panic – oh, too late.
Even if it isn’t a school day, she might need to get over to the gallery to help prepare for the opening.
True, but that kind of lateness can be passed off as ‘part of the artistic temperament’. Amanda being late for school might look like irresponsible parenting. (Also would tie in better with Amanda not caring if Andi got up in time – seizing a possible opportunity for a day off.)
Amanda looks more at peace with life in that first panel than I’ve seen her in a long time. Dunno how long that’ll last, but it’s a good look on her.
Dave, I love it!!! And I love the use of the Wiz. Hee hee! I’m curious who Amanda’s favorite character is in the “show”:) As for the story portrayed here, lots of stuff going on! Yes, relaxed Amanda, and not just the lack of pig-tails! Yup, my hair does the same thing when pulled back vs left loose. Longer loose. Hers looks just right. I am curious why Andi is freaking out, too. We’ll just wait and see! Thanks again for using SHARDS!! I can’t wait to see where this storyline takes things, and if Amanda will call Remi out on his “lack of taste” for her mom’s art LOL
I think Amanda would like Goldilocks, for being the bad-ass rebel.
Hahah:) Indeed! She is a badass, and bad, but secretly she has a good side;) You’ll see in Ch. 4!
Wait…is Tony a time traveler?? O_o
Very good! Apparently everyone has his doppelganger.
Amanda looks ten million billion times better and less like Angelica from Rugrats without her pigtails. Actually she might be a little more tolerable without the insufferable twintails…
Agreed, and same goes for Andi too, imo.
So Amanda likes Franken Berry, I liked Count Chocula myself.
For some time, the only thing I could get from this comic was how awesome it would be for Shards to be a TV show.
Hahaha, really?? And, yes, I’ll say it now: We came up with SHARDS in 2007. Before Grimm, before Once Upon A Time, before Disney started to revamp with Cinderella, Pan, Maleficent… We had SHARDS. And I cringe every time I see someone come up with a similar idea and we couldn’t make it out there first. Dang it! I want ours to be a show, or at least a cartoon! Or even read by over 50 people. I’d like that a heck of a lot:)