Loop is a 10-page minicomic made by Zack Morrison for Small Press Expo 2016. It has also been released in digital form
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Two twin sisters have a petty fight using time travel.
The comic is intended to be physically rotated to follow along with the flow of panels.
Contains examples of:
- Badass Bandolier: The red twin is dressed up like a Wild West cowboy type, including a bandolier (actually a giant watch).
- Beat Panel: After the blue twin tries to attack her sister in the past but ends up just leaving her alone in the present, the red twin is left just standing there alone for a couple panels, letting the failure sink in.
- Childish Pillow Fight: The blue twin tries to attack her sister with a pillow.
- Childish Tooth Gap: The blue twin has a gap in her front teeth, emphasizing her young age.
- Color-Coded Characters: One twin wears blue and holds a blue pillow, and the other twin wears red.
- Didn't Think This Through: The blue twin summons future versions of herself to gang up on her sister, only for the next couple panels to show the red twin by herself, since the blue twins that would have been there departed for the past.Blue twin: [popping back] Well that didn't work out quite like I'd planned.
- Father Time: The twins' dad is Father Time, a stern-looking old man with a clock-themed getup and what looks like the night sky under his robe.
- Frame Break: The twins use their powers to cross panel borders, such as the red twin firing her gun at the next panel's blue twin, or the blue twin leaping back a panel. Father Time also does this, reaching back a panel to poke his daughter's cheeks.
- Grounded Forever: Father Time puts the twins on time out for infinity years.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: The twins have different clothes, accessories, color-coding, hair styles, and teeth (the blue twin has a tooth gap and the red twin has buck teeth), and the red twin is the only one with freckles.
- Meaningful Appearance: The twins and Father Time have time-themed appearances, naturally.
- The blue twin's hair buns look like alarm clock bells, and the bow on her front looks like an infinity loop.
- The red twin's pigtails look like the hands of a clock, and the bandolier she's wearing as part of her cowboy getup is actually a giant watch.
- Father Time has a giant droopy clock draped over his shoulders, Roman numerals around his sleeve cuffs, and a tiny sundial in the center of his forehead.
- Pictorial Letter Substitution: Loop has the two "o"s in its logo substituted with an infinity symbol to represent the time loop in the story.
- Splash Panel: The panel of Father Time bursting in and looming over the twins takes up two pages.
- Stable Time Loop: No matter where you start reading the time loop scene, you'll end up right back where you started, as the panels and story form a loop.
