Comic Strips

Oof

• Pan to white generic cop
• Pan to white southern judge
• Pan to white suburban mom
• Back to little white girl: "No."

Thanks. With telepathy, I do sometimes wonder if the telepaths see no point in making external facial expressions for the benefit of their fellow telepaths. It may be that on the inside, in their own telepathic group chat, they are joking and singing and laughing and having fun.

I recall a scene in Gunnerkrigg Court along these lines (don't ask me to find it) and I also wonder if it's the case in Pluribus.

Maybe it's similar to when you text someone, "ROFLMAO" but you aren't actually smiling in real life.

Woah, I always forget that art is an incremental refinement process, and love seeing the early concept sketched raw. The final piece is amazing btw

Always exciting to have a new comic artist tag. Thanks for sharing some of your process, i really enjoyed the premise and the great art!

It's telepathy. They're communicating telepathically. Including with members who currently aren't around.

Thanks for your feedback. Here is a walkthrough of what I intended for the reader to experience. Perhaps it falls short.

First, she asks a group of five people if she can join their telepathy club.

At first they are all looking at each other, as if to gauge each others' willingness to accept her into the group. You may assume they are looking at each others' facial expressions to see what the other people think about her request.

However, then it shows seemingly random people in other places, doing other activities: swimming, business deals, hair salon, working on telephone wires.

Then it switches back to the first group, who have come to a decision. You realize that the random people were all part of the telepathy club too, and they were communicating telepathically to consider her request.

they're presumably people in the telepathy club having telepathic communication (maybe to discuss including the person in the first panel?)

thus no speech bubble

Come to think of it, if they're telepathic, why do they need telephone wires anyway?

Shit, my comic makes no sense