Notes:
Of course, Rimshot's name comes from the drum riff made famous by bad comdedians
everywhere. "Oh bop shabam," by the way, comes from an old Miller Light
commercial. (I TOLD you I have very eclectic inspirations.)
This page has
a lot of instances where different styles of crosshatching are meant to
represent different levels of depth in the image. For example, in panel
#2 the crowd is done with horizontal lines while the stage is done with
vertical ones ... the hope is that your eye recognizes them as different
"layers" and automatically creates a feeling that one is in front of the
other. This is all well and good in theory, however my lack of patience
once again undercut the effectiveness of my plan. This is ESPECIALLY true
in panel #3.
The idea was
to create an untoned foreground of the chatting aliens, a standard middle
ground of Adler, a flat layer behind him that contains an ominous shape,
and a flat background. But really, it all got lost in a muddle of non-specific
lines. The various patterns (the thin vertical stripes on Adler's suit,
the thick vertical lines on layer 2, and the grid crosshatch on the background)
all meld together too closely. Oh well. Live and learn.
I DO like the
way the "Pow" panel turned out. Fist in the middle of the "o" ... not very
original, but still pretty effective. There's a reason why some things
become cliches ... they WORK!
And finally,
the last panel contains more tones as visual layers (the horizontal lines
representing both a background and a reflection on the dance floor, and
the crowd being a solid uncrosshatched mass). This is taken to another
level by having Adler's hand reach over the border, hopefully adding to
the idea of depth by making the page itself seem like the ultimate foreground
layer and the panel a window into a whole world of depth.
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