[a foot race is setup in a stadium, in which a confused green character has to start 100m away from the finish line, while a smug orange character starts 10m away from the finish line]

[orange easily finishes first, and smugly proclaims] Another easy win! I am better than everyone!

[green, on all fours, visibly tired and sweating] Well that was unfair…

[orange, covered in medals and holding a trophy, points at green angrily and scolds them] Get a grip What a sore loser You just hate success!

[yellow watches the race on TV, and rants about it from their sofa] If green wanted to win, he should have worked harder Some people are just allergic to effort Entitled… (?) (?)… millenials Always looking for excuses People need to be taught discipline Immigr… (?) Typical green behavior Should seize opportunities Bootstraps Quitter behavior Green people want to be poor

https://thebad.website/comic/just_work_harder

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The visual flow for dialog is bad. Especially on panel 3. The way the eyes move from panel 2 to 3 has you read the dialog from orange on panel 2 directly to the orange dialog on panel 3. Especially since orange’s dialog is higher in the panel.

    Convention is to read the highest text first. So it reads as though orange is just unprompted berating green, to which then green is responding to that (that the berating is unfair, not that the race was unfair). When you realize that’s the wrong order, and you’re supposed to read the lower text first, then it makes sense that green is stating the fault initially and then orange is attacking green for that.