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.
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Date: 2011-08-03 02:06 pm (UTC)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.