A few people sent me emails today when they caught that the inventory supervisor from this week’s story line has a mysteriously shifting eyepatch. As you can see above, his eyepatch shifts from his left eye in the first panel to his right in the last two.
As much as I would like to claim this as some clever hijinks on my behalf, it was a simple continuity error that I failed to catch. Interestingly, his eyepatch stays over his right eye for the remainder of the story.
Oh well. It gives him an Igor from “Young Frankenstein” quality.
… wasn’t that hump on the other side before?
“What eyepatch?”
It makes perfect sense visually. You kept the patch on the “upstage” so that when he turns his head we still see the expression of his remaining eye. It would look weird to switch it to the “downstage” eye.
Al Capp, who drew Lil Abner, always had the curl on Abner’s head look the same, ignoring that, technically, a swoop on the right would never move to the left. He liked how it looked. The author of Kevin and Kell does the same with Kevin’s ear. It just makes visual sense.
True. Marla’s hair follows that same visual rule actually. Her part is always on the side opposite the reader.
“I have a mole?” Mel Brooks loves those sight gags, doesn’t he?
It’s just like TV shows. On some TV shows one guest star has played different guest characters. And sometimes there are continuity errors too.