81 – Say My(an) Name
He was totally not lazy when “thinking” up of a name. I should know.
Original idea for panel 2 in Myan vision: “bishōnen” style. Didn’t like how it turned out so I changed my mind.
Whew, the last “panel” was a little hard to draw; dammit, why did I think it was easy? Guess I’ll add that pose on my “learn how to draw better” list.
Transcript
Keith: You're...Miyan!
Myan: Miyan!
Keith & Myan: Miyan!
Keith & Myan: Miyan!!
Yeah, the bishie style didn’t match the proportions. If you did natural proportions it’d have looked better.
KomicsMaker Yeah, and I need practice with that style too, although I don’t really want to practice that style.
Lazylonewolf KomicsMaker Whatever works for you. Don’t fix what isn’t broken as they say.
can you make a wallpaper of that last scene, it was adorableU0001f606
voidrunner Sure thing.
Lazylonewolf voidrunner Thank you 😀
voidrunner Lazylonewolf So… how big do you want it? Forgot to ask…
Lazylonewolf voidrunner my android has the ability to fit the picture to the screen size, so all I need is it to be at least 640 x 360
voidrunner Lazylonewolf Wait, so landscape or portrait?
Lazylonewolf voidrunner landscape please
voidrunner Lazylonewolf Will this do?
Lazylonewolf voidrunner that’s great, thank you 😀
voidrunner Lazylonewolf You’re welcome, enjoy!
Yeah, that’s a… significant change!
Fursik This could have, like, serious consequences in the story!
I HAVE THE MYAAAAAAAAAN!
eddiedalejr Don’t make me use this!!!
eddiedalejr Oh no, I just realized, is that a He-Man reference? You might make it more obvious with. “By the power of myan, I have the myan!” You know, that actually fits pretty well. Myan could change into battlecat garb and make a roar that’s not scary at all, and he would do the He-Man part with a book instead of a sword. FYI, lazylonewolf, you’re about a dozen years too young to remember this, unless it was on somewhere in reruns (you could get it via torrent right now I’m sure and live the joy of my own childhood) but He-Man was a show in the early 1980s, and it involved one prince Adam who had a “secret identity” of He-Man – and incidentally, if it’s even possible, it was an even more transparent disguise than Clark Kent’s eyeglasses, since he’s got an equally hugely muscled physique as prince Adam or He-Man, his face doesn’t change, only his clothes, he doesn’t have a mask or anything, and prince Adam has a pet/best friend green talking tiger named Cringer while He-Man has a green talking tiger named Battlecat as a partner – yet no one ever figured out his secret identity – but anyway, to change from Adam into He-Man, he would say “By the power of greyskull, I have the power!” and be accompanied by a repeated animation sequence which got tiresome after a while – but it was still probably the best show of the era until The Real Ghostbusters first went on the air. But what makes it rather appropriate here, is just because of Cringer/Battlecat (in the show, voiced by the cousin of J. Robert Oppenheimer).
thefred eddiedalejr Honestly, I think the whole thunder cats thing would have fit better than the whole He-man thing…
Miyan, MIyan MIYAN… MIYAN CAT – HOOOOOO.
… Miyan cat? Nyan cat? uh oh
KitsuneFire thefred eddiedalejr Myan will probably say she doesn’t need the Sword of Omens (is that right?)
thefred eddiedalejr Oh I’ve watched that a couple of times as a kid. I also liked the newer version as well.
Yes the Lion King pose is a bit hard
man in black Kudos to Disney for animating that pose.
Last panel is pure Lion King. ^_^
ObsidianSpikes I wish they named all lion cubs in zoos this way.
I have an idea for you that may allow you to make things more interesting – perhaps she should learn (accidentally?) that if she’s in physical contact with someone else, she can change that other person. And they change back not when they break contact with her, but when she takes off the collar, which could be thousands of miles away. Like maybe she’ll turn one of the main characters into a cat and then turn them back but the ears and tail will remain, and they’re trying to hide them in various ways and then in a situation where they need to go back to normal fast, like maybe the male or female human protagonists is in class and the teacher says “hats are not allowed in class” and Myan takes off the collar across the city just in time, or something.
Keith and Tammy I meant to say. I should have remembered their names.
thefred I’ll put it in my idea list. Try not to suggest too many stuff though, but thanks!
Lazylonewolf thefred Well, I didn’t mean to imply my suggestion was so specific. I was just coming up with one possible way it could play out. I just think it has potential to be interesting if herself wasn’t the only thing she could change with the collar.
thefred Lazylonewolf No prob. I’ll probably make something later how her collar works, probably, since Hibo-hibi should know how it works since she made it.
Lazylonewolf thefred ooh, wow, you’re fast. I wonder if you noticed I edited the comment. Refresh the page and you’ll see the final version of it. Another thing I’m KIND of hoping for – I don’t know if you have plans for it in any sense or if the comic is just not serious enough for it to become an issue – but it kind of seems like they ought to not take her future and her mind so much for granted. Like they said she didn’t belong in college because she was somewhat ignorant, not knowing a few words, and not knowing how to read, but she seems pretty intelligent (after all, she’s not just a cat but a kitten despite having a developed body when in human form, so she’s what, a few months old at most? Cat or human, being able to talk is pretty impressive). It just seems they ought to have a little more concern for seeing her as surpassing the role of a pet.
thefred Lazylonewolf Well, this comic isn’t supposed to be taken seriously since it’s a comedy after all.
its so anime
Connorses A few like these aren’t so bad.
Connorses Is that a bad thing?
(I say with two tabs open into Shoujo mangas)
Neospector Connorses I trying not to make Cat Nine use too many anime/manga tropes, well, the ones used too often anyway.
Lazylonewolf Neospector Connorses Meh, you can’t avoid tropes.
Anyone who seriously links TVTropes as if using them made the work generic or bad seriously hasn’t really read any kind of literary work. I mean, Alice in Wonderland even has the “Was it a dream?” trope.
Neospector Lazylonewolf Connorses As they say, tropes are not bad, they are tools, and every story uses tropes, no exception.