I think that, personally, Jeanty allowed the innermost downstroke crosshatch line (because she's got the angry eyebrows going on) represent the outside of duct and the skin tone was allowed to fill in the shape. In the one other panel of Buffy tearing up where she's not full-on crying, he still separated it from the eye, and even though the tear had not yet spilled out of the eye, it was still blue. The duct was left white most likely because the colourist because a good portion of the time everyone's ducts and corners of the eyes are left white and not pink.
Jeanty may not be the best artist but he can draw emotions, and he's drawn Buffy in a lot of different stages of crying, and the one from the web comic does not appear to be one of them, to me. I think the only way for people to know for sure is to ask Jeanty or Jane E. They'll probably say that it's whatever one wants it to be so that everyone is appeased. Normally, I would say that Buffy doesn't cry or tear up at the drop of the hat, but in Season Eight she cried all the time including when he came back in #40. I just don't see it in this instance because Buffy is the one character that always got her tears over-emphasized in a "Hey, I'm the hero! And I'm crying! Pay attention!" even when it was just a splash or beginnings of tears... but I think for ultimate clarification, if one wanted to, one could e-mail Jeanty at his website to ask. He seems like a nice enough fellow, and he'd probably answer.
ETA: If she's tearing up in every scene where her eye looks like that , I'd be adding a panel from almost every two pages. The ones I've included were just a small sample. If she's got that much tear over-production, she needs to go see a doctor. I just have to repeat that tears are deliberate, especially for the main character; and the artist wants you to know that they are crying or tearing up. If the first response most people are having is "I don't see any tears" or "What tears?" and need to be told by a third party that the character is crying or tearing up, then I don't know... It's seems out of place with all the other pages.
See, the pictures you included above to show the typical case don't match the panel in question. It's not a missing line. The eye would be mis-shapen if that's not a tear welling up, and I don't have that reaction to any of the other examples you give... except the one from #33, which is right before a panel of Buffy full-on crying.
I've tended to read a lot of Jeanty's pictures of Buffy as somewhat moist-eyed, with the intent of conveying "heart-felt feeling of some sort." So that might also be part of the difference between us. Maybe you haven't read those panels that way either.
In any case, I like the way it looks to me. It's just a hint of the urgency behind the question (which wouldn't be asked in any case if there were no urgency). She's isolated and on the ropes and it'd be surprising to me if she didn't have some watery emotions in the mix there.
Maybe you haven't read those panels that way either.
Probably not. Moistness tends to imply certain comic conveniences of how to portray that, and unless I see those which Jeanty uses, I'm not going to assume something is moist. She just looks angry to me, and her words and expression leave me rather cold. However, I'm glad that other people have enjoyed her inclusion in the web comic and are getting something out of it. Ah, comics, there's a little something for everyone.
Jeanty may not be the best artist but he can draw emotions, and he's drawn Buffy in a lot of different stages of crying, and the one from the web comic does not appear to be one of them, to me. I think the only way for people to know for sure is to ask Jeanty or Jane E. They'll probably say that it's whatever one wants it to be so that everyone is appeased. Normally, I would say that Buffy doesn't cry or tear up at the drop of the hat, but in Season Eight she cried all the time including when he came back in #40. I just don't see it in this instance because Buffy is the one character that always got her tears over-emphasized in a "Hey, I'm the hero! And I'm crying! Pay attention!" even when it was just a splash or beginnings of tears... but I think for ultimate clarification, if one wanted to, one could e-mail Jeanty at his website to ask. He seems like a nice enough fellow, and he'd probably answer.
ETA: If she's tearing up in every scene where her eye looks like that , I'd be adding a panel from almost every two pages. The ones I've included were just a small sample. If she's got that much tear over-production, she needs to go see a doctor. I just have to repeat that tears are deliberate, especially for the main character; and the artist wants you to know that they are crying or tearing up. If the first response most people are having is "I don't see any tears" or "What tears?" and need to be told by a third party that the character is crying or tearing up, then I don't know... It's seems out of place with all the other pages.
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I've tended to read a lot of Jeanty's pictures of Buffy as somewhat moist-eyed, with the intent of conveying "heart-felt feeling of some sort." So that might also be part of the difference between us. Maybe you haven't read those panels that way either.
In any case, I like the way it looks to me. It's just a hint of the urgency behind the question (which wouldn't be asked in any case if there were no urgency). She's isolated and on the ropes and it'd be surprising to me if she didn't have some watery emotions in the mix there.
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Probably not. Moistness tends to imply certain comic conveniences of how to portray that, and unless I see those which Jeanty uses, I'm not going to assume something is moist. She just looks angry to me, and her words and expression leave me rather cold. However, I'm glad that other people have enjoyed her inclusion in the web comic and are getting something out of it. Ah, comics, there's a little something for everyone.
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