Teaser Tuesday
...and have I got a teaser for you! It's the first page from Star Cruisers, all pretty and colored. No text boxes or balloons yet, because the comic hasn't been lettered, but I thought y'all might like a peek. :)
Clint Hilinski is the artist; Chandra Ponnusamy is the colorist.
If you want to see the script, look behind the cut!
Page 1
Background on this page should be gray, to give it kind of a post-apocalyptic feel. The lighting on all of these panels is dark -- we're only making out details from the light of the computer and the gadget that Saul's worked out to have it plugged into.
Page layout:
Panel 1, long strip across the top of the page. Panels 2 - 5 divide the rest of the page in quarter (like normal panels). The VO boxes can lay over the panels wherever is convenient, as it's a lot of text.
Panel 1
This is a long strip of grayed out, mostly dark space. In the center is a dark shape of a laptop computer screen. Behind it, we just see the top of a head, which looks like it has a bandage. The computer seems to be sitting on a desk of some kind, and the room behind the desk might look like there's a bed in it, but those details are unimportant. There's nothing on the desk but the laptop and a strange box with multicolored lights.
VO : Finally.
VO: It took months, but I figured out how to get power to my laptop from the Cruiser.
Panel 2
We're looking at the screen from behind Saul now, briefly seeing the words from the VO, and seeing the shoulder of his shirt, which is pretty ragged. We also get another hint of that bandage around his head, which is, in comparison to his clothing, very clean.
VO: Long months without the feel of a keyboard beneath my fingers. Of all the things we've gone through, that may be what most threatened my life.
Panel 3
Now we're looking at his fingers. They're dirty, and it looks like there's dried blood on them in the light of the computer screen. One hand has a bandage around the large knuckles. The other hand has a sweatshirt sleeve pulled up to his large knuckles, with his thumb sticking out of a hole in the cuff.
VO: Hyperbole, of course. I scrounged paper. Used a notepad function on Jean's smart phone. Even tried to get the ship's terminal to -- but that struggle isn't the important one.
Panel 4
Now we're looking at the multicolored device. It's made of wires, some of which probably look organic, or silicate. A crude face plate has a three pronged outlet created into it, and the laptop is plugged in. In front of the box are Saul's glasses, reflecting his profile.
VO: If I start in media res, more than I already have, I'll miss something, and I can't risk forgetting the sacrifices that have kept me, and the others, alive this far. I can't risk neglecting events that have changed us, for good or ill.
Panel 5
Focusing in on the inside of the device, on electrical impulses traveling through some of the wiring. Again, I think we can go with some silicate, or crystalline structure on the inside. The machine seems to be producing its own light in different colors, and those reflect and refract on the inside.
VO: What we've seen, what we've done -- the beauty and the horror in equal parts -- has made us who we are. And perhaps in the telling, I'll begin to understand what that means for our future.
Clint Hilinski is the artist; Chandra Ponnusamy is the colorist.
If you want to see the script, look behind the cut!
Page 1
Background on this page should be gray, to give it kind of a post-apocalyptic feel. The lighting on all of these panels is dark -- we're only making out details from the light of the computer and the gadget that Saul's worked out to have it plugged into.
Page layout:
Panel 1, long strip across the top of the page. Panels 2 - 5 divide the rest of the page in quarter (like normal panels). The VO boxes can lay over the panels wherever is convenient, as it's a lot of text.
Panel 1
This is a long strip of grayed out, mostly dark space. In the center is a dark shape of a laptop computer screen. Behind it, we just see the top of a head, which looks like it has a bandage. The computer seems to be sitting on a desk of some kind, and the room behind the desk might look like there's a bed in it, but those details are unimportant. There's nothing on the desk but the laptop and a strange box with multicolored lights.
VO : Finally.
VO: It took months, but I figured out how to get power to my laptop from the Cruiser.
Panel 2
We're looking at the screen from behind Saul now, briefly seeing the words from the VO, and seeing the shoulder of his shirt, which is pretty ragged. We also get another hint of that bandage around his head, which is, in comparison to his clothing, very clean.
VO: Long months without the feel of a keyboard beneath my fingers. Of all the things we've gone through, that may be what most threatened my life.
Panel 3
Now we're looking at his fingers. They're dirty, and it looks like there's dried blood on them in the light of the computer screen. One hand has a bandage around the large knuckles. The other hand has a sweatshirt sleeve pulled up to his large knuckles, with his thumb sticking out of a hole in the cuff.
VO: Hyperbole, of course. I scrounged paper. Used a notepad function on Jean's smart phone. Even tried to get the ship's terminal to -- but that struggle isn't the important one.
Panel 4
Now we're looking at the multicolored device. It's made of wires, some of which probably look organic, or silicate. A crude face plate has a three pronged outlet created into it, and the laptop is plugged in. In front of the box are Saul's glasses, reflecting his profile.
VO: If I start in media res, more than I already have, I'll miss something, and I can't risk forgetting the sacrifices that have kept me, and the others, alive this far. I can't risk neglecting events that have changed us, for good or ill.
Panel 5
Focusing in on the inside of the device, on electrical impulses traveling through some of the wiring. Again, I think we can go with some silicate, or crystalline structure on the inside. The machine seems to be producing its own light in different colors, and those reflect and refract on the inside.
VO: What we've seen, what we've done -- the beauty and the horror in equal parts -- has made us who we are. And perhaps in the telling, I'll begin to understand what that means for our future.