Notes: This
just might be my favorite page in the whole story. There's nothing really
tricky going on, but everything here turned out just the way I wanted it
to. The texture of both the figures and the background fit perfectly. Like
the hand in panel #1 ... it has a feeling of weight and motion that is
JUST what I was looking for.
Let's see ...
some of the highlights would be:
Panel #2: The
crosshatching on the "zorch" might seem sort of random, but I wanted to
give it the feeling of having been burnt on the side from which Adler is
coming ... as though it was more than JUST a sound effect, like it was
as solid as the door he'd just lasered.
Panel #3: Another
purposeful breaking of the border. The finger sticks over into the negative
space around the sound effect, again enhancing the idea that the door really
was there a moment ago. The vertical background feels right, too, especially
when mixed with ....
Panel #4: Where
the vertical background shrivels up at the same time Mr. Dían's
bravado does. I also like the bulbous quality his eyes have here and how
he shrinks his shoulders up. (I told you, it's not the tricky stuff that
makes me happiest ... it's getting the little details right.)
Panel #5: Just
talking heads and shoulders, right? Yes. But they ALSO have motion and
emotion in them. I like the way they're more spread out by the "ionizing"
door, and then bunching together within the room where it's safe. I like
that a little head nod one way or another gives the feeling that the character
is moving instead of standing still. And I again like the bug-eyed look
on Dían's face.
Panels #6 thru
10: I like how we start with a long shot on Dían and an extreme
close-up on Droxine, then have one camera zoom in while the other zooms
out. I like that they can both have wide-eyed expressions that communicate
very different emotions. I like thatas we zoom closer in on Dían,
the background becomes progressively heavier. And where else have you ever
seen an aligator-man sweat?
I suppose it
just might be that after 25 pages I was finally hitting my stride ... and
that would suggest that I'd really do better to draw regularly so I could
keep my edge. Oh well. Guess that's just another lesson I failed to learn
at the time.
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