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I make it a habit to steal from Dan DeCarlo and company as much as humanly possible. I want to bring back having characters' hats fly off their heads when they get surprised. I was comparing the old Archies to a new Archies comic the other day, and none of the new ones have that kind of manic pizazz anymore.
I thought you might've been asking me, Mystery Gypt, and I was hiding in the corner until someone else came out to answer your question. I'm lucky with these short strips that I'm only usually showing a few seconds to a minute at a time. New X-Men must be the trickiest comic out there right now for panel-to-panel transitions because everything happens so fast, with so many scene changes.
The first thing that came to mind as an example of doing this badly is the Art Adams X-Men annuals (I'd point out examples from New-X-Men, but I've only ever briefly glanced them over). In those Art Adams books you'd see Storm and Gambit breaking into the X-Mansion (last seen in the Deep South hanging around), where they'd meet some other X-Men and without any question as to what Storm has been up to recently, they'd meet more X-Men, seemingly at random. Then even more X-men had joined the team, and you never saw them join up, and for some reason they'd be on top of the Fantastic Four building talking about the villain they're after, and in the next page they'd be in the villain's hideout.
I'm sure my memory is making it seem worse then it is, and that there was some actual explanation for these weird transitions, but you couldn't really get a grasp of how much time this was all taking place in. Everybody seemed very panicked, but they were all wandering around bumping into each other that made it seem like weeks or months had gone by.
I actually got the same feeling of time loss for both Spider-man and Star Wars 2. Peter Parker gained superpowers, practiced with them, buried an uncle, finished high school about five seconds later, moved to New York where he lost a job that you never saw and gained one all in ten seconds, beat up a rapid succession of thugs, and saw the girl he was crushing on go through two to four guys, depending on how you count. I imagine all this happened over a period of months, but I can't say for sure.
I guess those are more scene-to-scene transitions, and not panel-to-panel transitions. Sorry, but they irk me.
Um, in more related news, I put a few more up, and will be doing so on a semi-regular basis. They can be found in the 2002 pages, or you can go directly here and hit the next button from there. |
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