Speech Bubbles: Difference between revisions

* Most comics use different forms of speech bubble to represent telepathy, internal dialogue, phone calls etc., etc.

* ''[[The Invisibles]]'' uses this to good effect.

* This has been in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip a few times. Most notably, the distinctive voice-treatment given to Daleks is represented as an angular font in a jagged speech bubble. This has been the case since they had their own strip in ''TV Century 21'' in the 1960s.

* Several characters in ''[[The Sandman]]'' have distinctive speech bubbles or fonts—each of the Endless and Matthew, in particular. At one point, Matthew "imitates" Morpheus with a speech bubble that looks like his. Delirium's speech bubbles contain wild swirls of color and wavering text, but when she was Delight (and sane), the colors were subdued and straight, and the text linear.

* The various ''[[Transformers]]'' series use different bubbles for the Transformers. Originally, they were pretty basic bubbles, with the edges of the arrow leading up to the bubble resembling a stylized jagged lightning bolt, like had been often used with television and radio dialogue. Later issues game them a squared bubble. [[Cosmic Horror|Unicron]] got bubbles edged in rippled darkness and blood-red lines. Later series added more effects, often to differentiate not only individual characters but their state. ([[Dream Wave]] Volume 3 Megatron, for example, had black speech bubbles with white dialogue.)

* In Teri Sue Wood's ''Wandering Star'', all the characters have elaborately hand-drawn dialogue, except for a group of mind-controlled slaves; theirs is typewritten.

* Normal humans as well as the titular character of [[Hellboy]] have white speech bubbles with standard comic book font and short trails. Demons and [[Eldritch Abomination|horrors]] generally have red or purple speech bubles with longer, wavy trails and sharp letters. Aquatic creatures have blue speech bubbles. The demon Ualac goes from normal white bubbles to wavy golden ones when he becomes the [[One-Winged Angel|beast of the apocalypse]] .

* Disney had for a time comics about baby versions of their characters. Baby Gyro Gearloose spoke in speech bubbles outlined by equations and formulas. Considering Gyro is the inventor as well as being terribly scatterbrained, that it probably represents that his mind's elsewhere while he's talking.

** Other groups that have their own special speech bubbles: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031027 Jagerkin] (and the Generals are even more special), and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051107 and voice-enabled clanks]. Castle Heterodyne [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080709 has a bubble similar to the Jagers], and Von Pinn and the Geisterdamen have their own particular fonts, but the same speech bubbles as human characters.

*** Actually, Von Pinn has her own very distinctive bubbles, with [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081119 curved slices] all around the edge, faintly reminiscent of a circular saw blade.

* ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' does the inverse. When Decoy Octopus is in disguise, his speech bubble remains white, making it easier for readers to identify him.

** Each character has their own colors of speech bubble, with their own [[Painting the Medium]] moments. When Psycho Mantis is using his powers, his text turns from black to <s>red</s> green. It's when he goes totally nuts that his text turns red. And when one character is possessing another, the possessing spirit's speech bubble is used. This is actually used in the last comic, to reveal that {{spoiler|Big Boss has taken over Ocelot's mind, not Liquid as the games would have you believe}}.

* David Hopkins' ''[http://www.pholph.com/ Jack]'' uses a very distinctive style of speech bubble for any dialogue spoken by the Sins in the strip and a second distinctive style for those characters who are/were Fallen angels, although the latter is rarely seen.

** Candy and Ryan Dewalt, the pair behind ''Vinci & Arty'', did a story arc for ''Jack'' (with full approval from David Hopkins) and brought their talent for character-specific fonts to ''Jack''.

* One strip from ''[[Lick My Jesus]]'' (which is regrettably defunct) had one character agreeing with everything another said. It turned out to be because he didn't understand what the person was saying—because he didn't speak Papyrus. The rest of the strip was a series of gags which involved treating fonts as if they were languages.

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', [[Starfish Aliens]] often speak in hexagon-shaped balloons, while robots usually speak in stylized square balloons [[Shout-Out|reminiscent]] of the [[Marvel Comics]] [[Transformers]].

* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the [[Big Bad]] race of the time had an in-universe [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020421.html font change] to something more readable as part of the terms of a surrender.

* In ''[[Dreamkeepers]] Prelude'', [http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=124 an arcing speech bubble].

* In ''[[Thistil Mistil Kistil]]'', [http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch02-pg20/ Loki is angry. The lettering is not neat, and shows red.]

* In ''[[The Specialists]]'' [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-59/ Baron Crossbones speaks in black bubbles with white writing.]

* In ''[[American Barbarian]]'' [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=87 red, white, and blue speech for a moment.]

* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1080254/blue-yonder-prologue-page-14/ one attacke speaks in white writing on sky blue]. All the rest are normal.

* In ''[[Level 30 Psychiatry]]'' translated [[Pokémon-Speak]] is rendered in Blue and Yellow balloons reminisant of the Pokemon logo.

* Naturally, these get used throughout the whole of ''[[Ears for Elves]]''; however, the ways their shape and layout can be used is shown excellently [https://web.archive.org/web/20150121074535/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/572 here].