Yeah I'm Still Talking About Comics
So a couple of things:
First is this scan of page 171 of Understanding Comics, which I promised a while ago. I'll put it behind the cut.
So the reason I like this so much is that it is a perfect example of words and images working beautifully hand in hand. There is a lot of build up to the penultimate panel on this page (in the chapter) and when it finally comes you just aren't disappointed by the results at all.
hannibalvail lent me volume four of Ex Machina. It really is good. As I was going through the artwork again (as I am one of the few (apparently) who often misses the artwork in lieu of the story and not vice versa) I noticed something that struck me even more the second time than it did the first.
"Then how come I hear old elevators singing at night?" is asked by Mitchell Hundred (the protagonist) to a priest after asking the priest about the living nature of buildings. This question about the animation of buildings was brought forward because Mitchell had felt guilty that he had been sad over the loss of great buildings during the first Gulf War and not over the loss of life.
Hundred, for those not familiar with the storyline, has an ability to speak to and hear from machines. But what's particularly cool about this is that while Mitchell had a conversation with a man (who has the nearly same ability to talk to animals) he claims that just because they (meaning both machines and animals) have something to say it doesn't mean that they are conscious creatures. Now this is during a flashback that he has the conversation with the animal speaker and it is during the "present" time that he's speaking to the priest. This is some pretty fascinating character development. This is a good goddamn story.
First is this scan of page 171 of Understanding Comics, which I promised a while ago. I'll put it behind the cut.
So the reason I like this so much is that it is a perfect example of words and images working beautifully hand in hand. There is a lot of build up to the penultimate panel on this page (in the chapter) and when it finally comes you just aren't disappointed by the results at all.
hannibalvail lent me volume four of Ex Machina. It really is good. As I was going through the artwork again (as I am one of the few (apparently) who often misses the artwork in lieu of the story and not vice versa) I noticed something that struck me even more the second time than it did the first.
"Then how come I hear old elevators singing at night?" is asked by Mitchell Hundred (the protagonist) to a priest after asking the priest about the living nature of buildings. This question about the animation of buildings was brought forward because Mitchell had felt guilty that he had been sad over the loss of great buildings during the first Gulf War and not over the loss of life.
Hundred, for those not familiar with the storyline, has an ability to speak to and hear from machines. But what's particularly cool about this is that while Mitchell had a conversation with a man (who has the nearly same ability to talk to animals) he claims that just because they (meaning both machines and animals) have something to say it doesn't mean that they are conscious creatures. Now this is during a flashback that he has the conversation with the animal speaker and it is during the "present" time that he's speaking to the priest. This is some pretty fascinating character development. This is a good goddamn story.