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karmagava September 21, 2006 6:54 PM	there is a way to put the dialogue in a way that is possible to understand whatit is said before and what is said after the other dialogue in the scene? I mean who talk first of the couple? for istance by putting one dialogue higher and the other lower? if not, shouldn't it exist..?
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The_young_scot September 21, 2006 7:06 PM	Most people tend to read left to right, so the person on the left tends to talk first
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Externalization September 21, 2006 7:48 PM	"In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first." - George Carlin
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crackpanther September 21, 2006 8:20 PM	I think I remember reading on Wikipedia that only terrorists read right-to-left.
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biped September 21, 2006 9:10 PM	quote: Most people tend to read left to right, so the person on the left tends to talk first That's right. You're just going to have to adjust your comics to fit this standard. If other countries have other ways of doing it, they can just create their own fucking stripcreators.
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LuckyGuess September 21, 2006 10:02 PM	StripAllah.
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BobCheeseburger September 21, 2006 11:58 PM	You could use your imagination.
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boorite September 22, 2006 12:52 PM	If you read my comics backwards, you get Satanic messages.
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AngryAmerican September 22, 2006 2:09 PM	durka, durka, bakalava, jihad.
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biped September 22, 2006 2:37 PM	I read "Family Circus" backwards once, and Billy told me to kill the pope.
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boorite September 22, 2006 2:50 PM	Their dead grandparents haunt the shit out of them.
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boloboffin September 22, 2006 2:53 PM	How do you read a single panel comic backwards?
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boorite September 22, 2006 3:07 PM	quote: How do you read a single panel comic backwards? First you slowly undo my belt buckle...
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boloboffin September 22, 2006 3:24 PM	quote: quote: How do you read a single panel comic backwards? First you slowly undo my belt buckle... This sounds remarkably like how my uncle likes his lawn mown.
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The_young_scot September 22, 2006 3:24 PM	!!SKCESTTUB
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karmagava September 23, 2006 7:08 PM	so you have to change the position of the characters if you want for istance one to speak first in the first scene and last in the second scene, moving from left side to right side...? in my stupid country the first to speak is the one with the dialogue put higher than the other one, so they can stay always in the same side. but never mind, forget it
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biped September 23, 2006 7:21 PM
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boorite September 23, 2006 7:24 PM	In my country, the squirrels chase dogs into trees.
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boloboffin
September 24, 2006 12:27 PM

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so you have to change the position of the characters if you want for istance one to speak first in the first scene and last in the second scene, moving from left side to right side...? in my stupid country the first to speak is the one with the dialogue put higher than the other one, so they can stay always in the same side.
but never mind, forget it

No "never mind, forget it", it's part of dealing with the limits of the medium. Just like a sonnet is 14 lines of iambic pentameter, and you have to fit your poem into those parameters or it's not a sonnet anymore.

Part of the art is how you deal with or overcome the limitations.

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boorite September 24, 2006 12:29 PM	In my country, a sonnet has 17 lines, 4 egg whites, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys.
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