Speech Bubbles: Difference between revisions

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;">''Hi [[Robot Buddy]]! Do you want to tell the nice tropers about [[Speech Bubbles]]?''</div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<Affirmative, carbon-based friend. Speech Bubbles are floating text circles (or [[Odd-Shaped Panel|other shapes]]) that characters in [[Comic Books]] and [[Web Comics]] or other [[Newspaper Comics|dimensionally-challenged]] media use to communicate. That is all.>>}}</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;">''Hold on there, Robot Buddy! There's just gotta be more to it than that!''</div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<Perhaps Professor Verbose has more data on this topic.>>}}</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Why indeed I do! Speech Bubbles aren't just generic circles or places to put words, but [[Metafictional Device|metafictional]] constructs that can be [[Painting the Medium|painted, shaped, and written different ways!]] [[Speech Bubbles Interruption|We can even superimpose them to show interruptions, if we were so rude as to interrupt!]]</div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<This is illogical and serves no functional purpose.>>}}</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Oh, [[Straw Vulcan|silly Robot Buddy]]! Your logical mind hasn't noticed one of the greatest uses for Speech Bubbles. In fact, your own speech bubble is different from young Tommy's and my own.</div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''Whoa! That's cool! But, why are they different?''</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Yes, it is indeed "Cool" Timmy! Differently shaped and even colored or [[Fonts|fonted]] bubbles are nature's way to help readers notice who's saying what more easily, as well as how they're feeling and even if they're robots, as your Robot Buddy's bubble shows. In fact, some species even use [[Rebus Bubble]]s at times!</div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:red; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|>>Warning! Warning! Logic circuit malfunction! Switching to mode:}} '''[[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]'''<<</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;"><big>''Gee willikers, doc! Robot Buddy has gone berserk!''</big></div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:purple;">Yes, and if you'll notice, both your own and your robotic friend's speech bubbles have changed to show your excited emotions! Now, to hit the "Off Switch"...</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:red; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|>>'''Crush! Kiiillll....'''}} deessstroooooy... >></div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:66%5px; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''That was a close one, doc! I've never been more scared in my short fictional life!''</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">That certainly was, Jimmy! Just remember that things can always get scarier! For example, some villains and monsters like to use black speech balloons and strange colored text. If I were to change my speech bubble ''just'' so...</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; background-color:#333333; font-family:cursive;"><big>'''[[Voice of the Legion|COWER, MORTAL! FOR WE]] [[Emotion Eater|SHALL FEAST ON THE TEARS OF THE INNOCENT,]] [[Evil Tastes Good|THE SWEETEST DRINK OF THE EARTH!]]'''</big></div></div>

<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:66%5px; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''Waaaah!''</div></div>

<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:60%; text-align:left; color:purple; ">Billy? Where did you go? Oooh, tears!</div></div>