Getting the thumbnails for this page has been sort of difficult. I made a first false start last week, while my students were taking a midterm. Please click to enlarge this, so you can read my draft of the script:
...But this morning I reworked the first three tiers a little bit, so I'd be able to make Stepan's walk through the shadow-realm a little clearer in "panel" 4 (actually a space between panels), and to give Stepan more room to make his (newly scripted) pronouncement about why he won't map the shadow-realm.
I'm not sure whether I'm going to keep the nod to Emily Dickinson in there -- it seems a little silly -- but I also haven't thought of a clearer way to say what Stepan means: that the real crime in mapping the shadow-realm is in forcing it to be one thing forever.
As for the constraints: as long as "panel" 4 counts as a panel, I've got three silent panels in a row. And I mean to swipe / scan images from a few different sources in panel 5, which is the one that defines the look of Serkja, where Stepan is supposed to meet Ipthorin.
Will Iphtorin still look like he has a dinosaur's head when I finally draw him? Time will tell.
Comments and suggestions are, as you know, not just welcomed but invited. By me. I invite them.
I like, two things in particular:
ReplyDelete1) The second tier is a lot clearer as to what Stepan's doing and how
he's using the shadow realm to get around. Plus, it looks cool!
2) Stepan's dialogue about "dwell[ing] in possibility" is just what we needed to get that sense of the story across, and it does it
concisely.
I do feel bad for the junkmen -- they'll think twice before they give anybody else a lift! And Kalbi's got to tote that head all the way home before he can dig up another bone. Here's hoping it's stashed in a more dog-paw-friendly than the last one was!
Nice job, Isaac.