V06 – Pg07
Hello!
Again, thanks for all the comments/questions. They make my day 🙂
You may or may not have noticed, but this is the first page in the issue with an dialogue. I’m personally not a fan of big monologues during fight scenes. Why? Well, fighting is exhausting and leaves little energy for debating your opponent on their World view. That said, in comics like Spider-Man, etc. that’s not really an issue for me. Also, once the punches are flying, the time for talking has gone!
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See you Friday, as this brutal battle reaches it’s bloody climax!
Dan
MrHades
Edited by
Gary Cohen
There’s two reasons fights have monologues.
1) To kill time. Unless an artist is like you and knows martial arts, there’s only so much ‘PUNCH, KICK, WALL SMASH’ you can do.
2) Writers get nervous when there’s not a lot of dialogue, because readers ask us what exactly we contributed. We tell them the story, and they laugh and say the artist tells the story.
And now you’re showing us up with this slice of awesome, you cad!
1.) I can understand this. Conflict has got to have meaning and context, otherwise it’s totally uninteresting.
2.) Ha ha! Well, I feel a good partnership between artist/writer can make the most of this. If the writer could say: ‘Hey artist, just have pages 20+21 just be a fight between the two characters, ending with Pendragon on the floor.’ – leaving the artist to best interpret that fight visually, playing to their visual storytelling strengths,
The Hands…well it looks like the left is under the right while grabbing his (Pendragon’s) throat…is this a lead to a special move…because it is awkward to try?
Akk! Well spotted. That looks totally awkward. Will amend that!
Edit:
Not my best panel, but it does the job 🙂