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Post by nomuse on Dec 3, 2007 16:22:46 GMT -4
Shoot, I could totally see those panels.
But was this Golden Age, or the modern, decompressed stuff? Artists these days might take four pages for that punch!
Were I to try, with my lousy drawing skills, it might be #1: punch, no BG (just action lines. #2: Superman hurling towards camera, full-figure, above cloud layer with curvature of Earth showing already and vapor trail showing his path, #3: medium CU profile of Superman hitting gray ground, spray of dust, impact shock et al -- continuing line of action from #1 thru #2 -- #4, the reveal, either one panel head-and-shoulder from behind, surrounded by landscape, Superman looking back towards (tiny) Earth, or if you really want to show the impact, #4 is birdseye big panel of Superman in middle of impact zone, a meticulously drawn lunar landscape around him, and #5 is the look-back.
And I need to hit my Scott McCloud again because talking these is so much harder than sketching them!
Should we move this thread yet?
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Post by reynoldbot on Dec 4, 2007 2:12:36 GMT -4
This was a brand new issue, probably still in the stands if you wanted to see what I am talking about.
I like your version. Very moment to moment (a la McCloud). Your scenario by my understanding would have an inherantly slow pace to it, as if you are watching the action in slow motion. Of course, if you drew it a certain way, it could seem pretty fast as well. Your version is good because it presents the entire setting and does so as a plot device rather than a static backdrop.
Your script highlights the other thing (besides basic comprehension) that was totally missing from that comic: environments. In the entire issue, I counted less than five panels that had any sort of an environment, and even those were pretty lame. The whole book was sloppy, rushed, and poorly drawn.
Haha this thread has gone way off the mark, hasn't it? If our faithful moderator gets sick of us, we should start a new thread. But otherwise I say we ride the wave of irrelevance. Plus, threads so often die when they are moved.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 13, 2007 18:38:09 GMT -4
I just found out proof that we didn't go to the moon at all. They are contained in these words of an HB:
"the biggest thing that persuade me that this is a hoax is the fact that 11 astronauts had died before ever leaving the launch pad by 'accidents' ... 7 in airplane crashes, 3 in a blown up space ship and one in a car accident, and all this before we ever made it past the launch pad.. seems like someones tryin to keep ppl quiet to me."
With reasoning like that, who needs photos, videos, rocks or F1 rockets?
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 13, 2007 20:00:49 GMT -4
What are the odds of that? Good book. I have many on the history of the English language - some colourful, detailed, with lots of good historical documents illustrated - this book is good though because it shows how the language changes by the relationship between vernacular, written use, legal and in government. Plus how the Vikings, French, Latin and Germanic influences made English what it is. I especially like the samples of text in all the stages of English - you can really see why we spell words the way we do today.
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Post by Joe Durnavich on Dec 13, 2007 20:39:01 GMT -4
Plus how the Vikings, French, Latin and Germanic influences made English what it is.
The language seemed to change quite quickly after the French visited England for holiday or whatever the deal was. I do like the book's central thesis that there is no single story of English, but a multitude of related stories. There was and is no such single thing as an English Language.
I especially like the samples of text in all the stages of English - you can really see why we spell words the way we do today.
I'm just glad English evolved into a language I can understand. It looks like I was born at exactly the right time...
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 13, 2007 23:37:10 GMT -4
I just found out proof that we didn't go to the moon at all. They are contained in these words of an HB: "the biggest thing that persuade me that this is a hoax is the fact that 11 astronauts had died before ever leaving the launch pad by 'accidents' ... 7 in airplane crashes, 3 in a blown up space ship and one in a car accident, and all this before we ever made it past the launch pad.. seems like someones tryin to keep ppl quiet to me." With reasoning like that, who needs photos, videos, rocks or F1 rockets? I can do better
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Post by gillianren on Dec 14, 2007 0:36:09 GMT -4
Blessed Goddess. What would that have done to the US death rates?
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Post by sts60 on Dec 14, 2007 10:52:29 GMT -4
Maybe I should go inform my boss. He was in a backroom for A12. I mean, if he died mysteriously years ago, he might just want to take the rest of the day off.
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