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Daft Punk is a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronica music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss." 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which the narrator tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards. | Daft Punk is a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronica music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss." 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which the narrator tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards. | ||
− | In the comic, a stick figure (possibly [[Cueball]] narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. The figure says he has been haunted by the sound of Daft Punk's beats. | + | In the comic, a stick figure (possibly [[Cueball]]) narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. The figure says he has been haunted by the sound of Daft Punk's beats. |
− | In the title-text, the narrator continues | + | In the title-text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity. He then insinuates that he will kill Roderick Usher's band. Roderick Usher was a character in 'Fall of the House of Usher,' another story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which a man named Roderick Usher dies. The comic and title text mix realities between Poe stories and house music bands, further showing the narrator to be crazy. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== |
Revision as of 22:53, 12 February 2013
The Tell-tale Beat |
Title text: You fancy me mad. Could a madman have outsmarted the greatest electronica/techno artists of our era? Next to fall will be Roderick Usher's house/trance band. |
Explanation
Daft Punk is a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronica music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss." 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which the narrator tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards.
In the comic, a stick figure (possibly Cueball) narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. The figure says he has been haunted by the sound of Daft Punk's beats.
In the title-text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity. He then insinuates that he will kill Roderick Usher's band. Roderick Usher was a character in 'Fall of the House of Usher,' another story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which a man named Roderick Usher dies. The comic and title text mix realities between Poe stories and house music bands, further showing the narrator to be crazy.
Transcript
- The three panels show portions of a single scene. Although the characters are still stick figures, the artwork style is heavily crosshatched and shaded.))
- [In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a bookshelf.]
- Ever since I murdered Daft Punk
- [There is a fireplace, with no fire. A rug lies before it. At the left end of the mantelpiece are two bottles, one tall, one round. Another photograph of a woman is in a frame at the right end. The bookshelf continues from the previous panel.]
- And hid their bodies beneath the floorboards, I've been haunted
- [The narrator is clutching his head and leaning forward. A grandfather clock is behind him, next to a doorway. Above the doorway is a pallid bust of Pallas.]
- By this *pounding*.
- (White text on black.)
- Unn-Tss
- Unn-Tss
- Unn-Tss
Discussion
He had a chance to refer to Usher the musician instead. Oh well. I still laughed. 108.162.237.64 21:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a computer monitor, desk, bookshelf, fireplace, and many other things drawn in great detail. But the characters are still stick figures. And they are shaded! 108.162.237.64 21:26, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
At 108.162.237.64: I think he *was* referring to Usher the musicican; he was making a homonymic joke, by mixing the two Ushers (one by name, the other by genre). 141.101.81.216 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Oh god this comic hits differently now... Beanie (talk) 14:25, 22 April 2021 (UTC)