I think it's the amusing secret inner-monologue thing combined with those facial expressions that I assossiate most with STF (SixThirtyFive). It's unlike any other comic I read (and I've read quite a few), and I cherish it for it's uniqueness.
...Well anyhow, this strip is awsome and I dig the washed out color tones, but I am relationally inept and as lost as Waffles on the significance of which hand the ring(s) are on.
Also, I'm procrastinating a research project again. The next update better not coincide with a research project again. Two is coincidence, but three...
I think wearing the engagement ring on the right hand is counterproductive to having the engagement ring, which should symbolize fidelity to the fiancee. Wearing it on the right hand is like saying that it's still ok for guys to make passes at her?
As I read for some assignment in high school, in Western societies the wedding ring is worn on the third ("ring") finger of the left hand. At one time, medicine presumed that a very crucial vein connected that finger to the heart, thus ensuring that one's life essence would be bound by the wedding ring. Also, it is the weakest finger, especially in a society that presumed that right-handedness should be standard.
:TMYK:
</pedantry> Thanks for all the nice things you guys said about a comic you didn't get. ^__^ I can't make a comic funny by explaining it, but I owe you a less enigmatic take on the meaning of the monologue:
A person who wears an engagement/wedding ring to fool people might have an interesting reason for disguising her marital status (hell, this character tried it herself back in 98). A person who wears what looks like a wedding ring on the wrong finger is wearing a piece of jewelery in an unintentionally misleading way (thus inadvertently costing herself potential suitors that will take care of her car for her).
maybe her dad is a car guy though. i mean, my dad (a dentist) would still take care of my teeth if i were married.
i think single chicks are very aware of the pitfalls of wearing rings that look like wedding/engagement rings. perhaps the car shop guys get overly friendly with the poor girl-clerk, so she's wearing it to scare them off and tells tales about her made-up fiancee big jim who could crush them all with one blow.
Maybe he means that she's looking to her left in that panel while talking about the woman, but is looking to her right in all the other ones, suggesting that the woman is over there?
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I like the sly look on her face in panel 3.
But I am happy to see you're up and running again.
...Well anyhow, this strip is awsome and I dig the washed out color tones, but I am relationally inept and as lost as Waffles on the significance of which hand the ring(s) are on.
Also, I'm procrastinating a research project again. The next update better not coincide with a research project again. Two is coincidence, but three...
I think?
:TMYK:
</pedantry> Thanks for all the nice things you guys said about a comic you didn't get. ^__^ I can't make a comic funny by explaining it, but I owe you a less enigmatic take on the meaning of the monologue:
A person who wears an engagement/wedding ring to fool people might have an interesting reason for disguising her marital status (hell, this character tried it herself back in 98). A person who wears what looks like a wedding ring on the wrong finger is wearing a piece of jewelery in an unintentionally misleading way (thus inadvertently costing herself potential suitors that will take care of her car for her).
i think single chicks are very aware of the pitfalls of wearing rings that look like wedding/engagement rings. perhaps the car shop guys get overly friendly with the poor girl-clerk, so she's wearing it to scare them off and tells tales about her made-up fiancee big jim who could crush them all with one blow.
Luckily the universe didn't implode.
Which isn't really that big of a deal.
That's the only thing I can think of.
Correct on all counts.
So there.
Go me!
How convenient for you.
Of course, on an internet forum, an ambiguously aimed signature "you" can be construed as talking to anyone.
Anyway, I digress.
I got the comic the first time I read it, too!
And I despise the fact that the leaves on panel one prevent me from remixing this comic without adding a crappy looking thought bubble.
EDIT: I'm not Jon.
And Jon beat me to it!