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iloveserperior
Since: Nov, 2013
16th Sep, 2020 07:01:04 PM
Sounds like you're describing two things: Benevolent Architecture is for when architecture seems to be tailored for a specific situation and Chaos Architecture is when a location never seems to have a consistent layout.
Edited by iloveserperior
Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
17th Sep, 2020 06:58:04 PM
Chaos Architecture it is, thanks!
In How to Read Nancy, they discuss how for one strip, Nancy's house seems to be built so there's a fence right in front of the garden, while the next strip might have the garden in a different place, might add windows, doors, trees, for the gag to work.
Is there a trope for when the architecture in a comic strip or story seems to be ever-changing for the sake of logistics in a gag? (Of course, it's possible to do it in non-comedic scenarios, but the point is, there isn't a 'blueprint' of the house, because that would limit the joke possibilities)