Comments on: Creative Comic Conversations

By: Cailin Coilleach

Cailin Coilleach — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:31:26 +0000

I guess it really says something about Penny Arcade that the second and third mushroom comics perfectly match the original ^_^

Some of those are pretty great I'm thinking of “Santa Claus”, “gained weight” and “he is gay!”

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:42:59 +0000

These are great. You choose some really good strips to use as well. But yeah, I'm glad you didn't show them the original dialogue!

I tried to do some of these a while back, but the results weren't as amusing as these. It's for things like this in class that I sometimes wished I was at a high school and not a JHS.

By: Deas

Deas — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:14:55 +0000

Tohoshinki is a musical group from South Korea. (Apparently they're called 東方神起
[Tohoshinki] in Japan, but are called 동방신기 [Dong Bang Shin Gi] in South
Korea.) Wikipedia to the rescue! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVXQ

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:06:17 +0000

I think my favorite is the Tohoshinki one, mainly because it does such a good job of capturing the general spirit of the original, and consequently the dialog fits really well with the drawing, in all three panels. (No, I don't have any idea what Tohoshinki is. But it doesn't really matter.)

Several of the others are interesting as well.

I also think some old Sunday Calvin and Hobbes strips would work well for this exercise too.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:47 +0000

I've done these sorts of activities before – They can be very fun. It's more effective if they have a lot of input to go on, though, or else the students might possibly make errors that stick with them; habitual mistakes.

Some of your students have a great lexicon. Either that, or they have some pretty decent dictionaries – “declared my love for”, “gained a little weight”, “how do I know”, “don't behave so childishly”…particularly the 'so' in the last one – It's a pretty abstract concept. Most students would mistakenly write, “don't behave too childishly.”

I haven't seen you in action, but I get the sense that you're in your element, Deas!

By: Deas

Deas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:54:40 +0000

Ah – good catch – “metabo” is short for “metabolic syndrome,” which indeed
has come to mean “fat” in Japan. There's actually a legal definition for it
now in terms of waistline, and if you exceed it there are fines and stuff,
or so I hear. Totally Orwellian in my brain. I've never encountered it
myself…..at least, I haven't encountered it yet…

By: Myles

Myles — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:10:25 +0000

This seems like a pretty cool exercise. Penny-Arcade is the best. Best one is where Luigi threatens to arrest Mario because he is an addict. So good. Second, definitely the one where one of your students plans on getting revenge.

Also, I assume Metabo means fat in Japanese?