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![[0443] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 1](/comics/2013-01-03-0443-under-a-killer-balloon-episode-1-page-1.png "[0443] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 1")
- Sandy South: 60° F, sunny, no wind. Contrary to popular belief, lousy private eyes like me sometimes even work when it’s not raining cats and dogs.
- Sandy South: People call me Jenny Murphy. Presumably they do so because it says so on my door.
- Door plate: Detective Agency Jenny Murphy
- Sandy South: …
- Qoo: You ought to get off your lazy ass and replace the previous owner’s signs!
- Sandy South: Tomorrow.
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[So Sandra really is a good Raccoon, let the noir begin!]
I’m wondering who her first client will be.
So is it pronounced like “cue” or “coo” or “quoo”? It’s going to drive me crazy until I figure that out.
“Replace Jenny Murphy’s sign? She was the pinnacle of female detectives!”
Now you made my day (or rather, night. It’s almost 1 AM…)
Under a Killing moon was an incredibly amazing game. I more recently started its sequel, Pandora’s Box, after learning Under a Killing Moon was actually the 3rd of 5 games in the franchise O_o
Still, i’m very curious how you’ll handle the Sandra version of the most unlucky detective. 🙂
Wait, so all this time she’s technically been impersonating Jenny Mruphy?
You’re under arrest for identity theft, Little Miss Private Eye!
perhaps you have heard of Rocky Rococo? Nick Danger? Betty Jo Biolowski?
The perfect song to accompany this comic strip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MC-qF65FuE
Novil, can we explore the bottomless pit of doom sometime soon? It’s past 2012… 😉
(From this comic: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/12/15/0227-bulls-eye-ii/ )
I’ve found some similarities to calvin and hobbes in this comic, but this is definitely the biggest one. This strip reminds me of the Tracer Bullet arcs.
And then we discover that Sandra and Woo actually swear a lot when they aren’t posing for the comic.
Can’t wait to see where this goes…
What was that?
“You Jenny Murphy?”
Sandra: “…sure let’s go with that.”
“You a detective?”
Sandra: “…that works too.”
Wait, was that a typo in the transcript? I assumed the altered spelling of Woo’s name was a reference to some detective novel I haven’t yet read, and was trying to play off that. If so, my apologies, and please disregard my previous comment.
The first customer walks in. ‘Hi, I need to speak to Jenny Murphy.’
Sandra: ‘Case accepted.’
Customer: ‘Huh?’
Also, to all those wondering about transcript names, I believe it to be intentional. Sandy South instead of Sandra North as well as Qoo instead of Woo.
Looking through the comic transcript and I thought to myself “Who is this Qoo guy and what has he done to Woo?”
I worry that this may be TOO derivative of Calvin and Hobbes. I can stand a reference here and there but this just feels a bit off.
I’ll wait until I see more to pass too harsh of a judgement though.
seahawk459 wrote:
seahawk459 wrote:
And Calvin and hobbes took the idea from classic film noir.
I think referencing C&H is not really a big problem. It’s a nice reference and a good start for a story.
“I have five slugs in me. One’s lead, the rest are bourbon.”
This should get interesting. I’d like to throw my hat in the ring that Sandra is going to end up investigating Larisa and a “series of fires of unknown origin” – possibly as a tangent to Spinal Tap being in town…
Might I take the time to say that for some reason, I find this to be THE MOST GLORIOUS THING EVER!?
Ok to start yes to this Idea, but why is woo wearing a regular tie and not a Bow tie. Much cuter :3
If replacing the sign takes too much work, she could always change her name to Jenny Murphy.
YES! The Jenny Murphy Arc is here! I’ve been waiting for this one.
That’s it Woo, put boot to butt!
No. NOOOOOOO. I caught up to the latest comic D:
Now I have to wait for…. *gulp*… updates
@ jacklebott:
Or you could re-read from the beginning (again) – that’s what I started to do, and what made me love Larisa on the second reading (Right towards the end of the arc, “Bribe Money”).
Then there’s the awesomeness of her randomly finding the Holy Grail in the old factory building, and the questions raised about her medical condition(s)…
Wow, this would be a great spin off!!
@ Frozenwolf150:
UGH! Not again! I can’t stand it when this author puts the names of new (and relatively new) characters in the text box below the comic before first putting their name in the actual strip. Or even worse, without even giving their name in the strip! Nobody knows that the gun-toting ground squirrel’s name is Ruth by how she gave her name in the comic, because she didn’t! Without that stupid text box below the comic, she’s practically nameless! This is a serious mistake, in my opinion, and the author is making it, again.
I was, once again, totally confused when I saw this comment about pronouncing a certain word “cue” or “coo” or “quoo”. I went looking in the strip for what the commenter was talking about and couldn’t find anything. Then I remembered the “anonymous Ruth” incident and checked the text box. There it was, “Qoo”, the played-by-Woo character’s name. There also was the name of the played-by-Sandra detective girl. Since these characters haven’t been named in the strip, yet, the text box should be identifying these characters as something like “Detective girl” and “Detective raccoon”.
@ Mike:
we knew her as “nancy”
@ Robert:
Customer: Listen, I don’t need you for a case, I just need you to find Jenny Murphy.
Sandy: So it’s a missing persons case, then?
@ JKelley:
I’m pretty sure he had eight slugs…the drink packs a wallop, and bullet packs a revolver
@ Sambo:
I agree. Really curious as to where it goes,because if it has no bottom,it has to have a point where the gravity reverses and become a bottomless pit for somewhere else.@ Sambo:
Frozenwolf150 wrote:
IN figure it’s “Coo”, to rhyme with “Woo”.
“I”. It was supposed to be “I”. Stupid “N”, where’d you come from? D:
@ Frogalog:
Wait, her name was Ruth?
So if Sandra’s the PI, does that make Cloud the dame she’s going to have a fling with before walking off mysteriously into the fog?
Oh my god… Sandra’s a Tex Murphy fan.
Since Under a Killing Moon is one of my all-time favorite games… Yeah, I definitely can’t wait to see where this goes.
@ Silhalnor:
Yep. Like I said (and five or more people HATED me for reminding them of this), the gun-toting ground squirrel had a name, but it wasn’t made known through the comic itself. If you go back to the web page for that strip (Sorry, I don’t have a link for it) and look at the text box underneath it, you see the name of the character before each line she speaks.
At the risk of having five more cowards crushing my post, I again state that it is a mistake to reveal a character’s name in a transcript (I guess that’s what that text box is) before it is revealed in the strip itself, or if that character’s name is never revealed in the strip.
@ Frozenwolf150:
Koo, because it’s pronounced the same way as ‘Woo’. Except that there’s a one-letter-difference.
I’m all caught up…
Reading good webcomics gives me the best feeling ever.
Catching up with the current strips of good webcomics and having to wait for more gives me the worst feeling ever.
@ Mike:
Nick Danger FTW. Glad to see someone else listened to Firesign Theater.
@ Frogalog:
I agree. After all, why would I read the transcript when I finished reading the comic just a moment prior? Apparently just in case character names have been introduced.
The dislikes I see on what I consider to be reasonable posts is something I particularly don’t like. Of course that’s the community not the comic, and what I consider to be a “reasonable post” is purely my opinion but I’ve seen some that, to me, are just unfair. Your’s is one, I consider it a reasonable complaint but noone even replies? All a bunch of downvotes do is leave me wondering why they don’t like it. I have been getting the impression that criticism of any sort is not wanted here. It is part of why I don’t post much.
Happened several pages ago too on “Manifesto Of The Generation WWW”. It is as if almost no one was able to figure out that Pillamelai was refering to *before* Novil edited the comic. Of course, for all I know she/he would have gotten all that negativity even without the edit but I consider it unfair as it is because the comment has now effectively been taken out of context. (I didn’t see the original comic by the way.)
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/12/20/0439-manifesto-of-the-generation-www/
MunMae6 wrote:
It’s been a while since I read any of the “Tracer Bullet” strips – but this is more of a Tex Murphy cross, so it needs to run a little more light-heartedly (as I recall, the TB arcs in C&H were fairly dark, for a daily comic.)
I’ve only played Pandora Directive and Under a Killing Moon, but both were fun!
Oh – for whoever said Woo/Qoo (Chinese alter ego?) would look cuter in a bow tie? Perhaps – but when was the last time you saw a film noir detective wearing a bow tie? Or even a regular necktie knotted and pulled up tight? I seem to recall usually seeing them loosened at the collar, or even untied & merely draped…
I really like the concept art style you used in this strip. 🙂
Frogalog wrote:
Wow, you’re rather cynical. Is looking at a small text box below the comic when you don’t know a character’s name all that difficult? I mean, really, it takes all of 5 seconds. Stop whining and just move on with your life.
Now hold on a sec… I thought her last name was North? It suddenly says South in the textbox below.
Wutz?
@ Neospector:
You were so focused on giving me a jab you missed the point. I don’t care how long it takes for a character’s name to be revealed. It’s not that I want the character’s names to be given immediately up front in the comic so I don’t have to look at notes. It’s that the notes shouldn’t give away that information before it’s disclosed in the comic itself, if at all.
@ Frogalog:
Well the problem with this here is that these names are only known in advance to the people who spend time reading the notes/transcript/comments. And as far as those are concerned, I don’t think the quality of the comic is taken away from. I didn’t know Ruth’s name (because I didn’t start reading comments until I caught up with this series and I tend to skip over the tags) but I never felt like anything was missing or awkward and nor do I think that revealing a name in the tags before it’s in the comics is really going to disrupt anything except nit-picky people. Besides, the tags are there to allow people to look up comics related to specific people/things, not to spoil anything and it’s probably a lot easier to assign the tag early than it is to go back and change it. Especially if there are several comments before the name comes up and is necessary.