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Rex plays with Tara like a cat might play with a mouse. Wouldn’t it be just delicious irony if, perchance, Rex might become a mouse for the great and terrible Pukarith?
Hmm…obvious reach-into-the-bag there, and she’s clearly getting even more skittish about this whole thing than she was with Hal and company. Is she packing some good ol’ fashioned heat? Granted, I’m not sure how much good it would do in this situation, but it would provide an interesting twist. As if we needed another one… 😉
Liked the plot, but artwork is sub-standard. Taras head is out of proportions in panel two so much that it is unrecognizable (just compare with earlier drawings. Forehead is too low, eyes are too high. She looks like Neanderthal) and that nose of Rex in last panel looks like something I could have drawn (which is bad). If you compare Rex in panel one and panel five, that is not the same person. Everybodys hands in all of the panels are sketchy, non finished. There is no background at all. Actually only good drawings are Rex in first, and Tara in last (and Taras bodylanguage in fourth) panel. And even those are not as good as I have seen you draw.
This is not something you usually draw. This looks like it isn’t your work at all. If you feel that your artwork is not good, then take time to make it better. We can wait a bit longer for better art.
Actually, I have invested enough belief in the comic that I am happy to look past the technical issues.
Were I expecting a print volume — and I edit books and develop products — I would expect the whole work to go through first and second pages with art review. But this is a developing MS, as it were, and not a production job. It reflects partly the vicissitudes of the authors’ lives and it also reflects their commitment to a body of readers whom they don’t know. Yet they treat strangers with a good deal of respect and camaraderie, or perhaps Christian kindness as well, given the comic.
To receive that unselfish commitment in addition to a darn good yarn that piques the interest of a pastor with a good ten years of postgraduate education in which things medieval and ancient are a fixture, and to get it for EL FREEBO, well, I’m inclined to be charitable and look forward to the graphic novel. Yep, I’d buy it.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Rex plays with Tara like a cat might play with a mouse. Wouldn’t it be just delicious irony if, perchance, Rex might become a mouse for the great and terrible Pukarith?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Hmm…obvious reach-into-the-bag there, and she’s clearly getting even more skittish about this whole thing than she was with Hal and company. Is she packing some good ol’ fashioned heat? Granted, I’m not sure how much good it would do in this situation, but it would provide an interesting twist. As if we needed another one… 😉
January 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Oh boy. So Rex is extremely powerful. I wonder if Ignacius followed Tara in…
The look you can imagine is concealed behind the mask of the other woman is very well reflected in her posture I think.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Also interesting to note how Rex’s speech changes as he begins to talk about the book. I wonder if Tara picked up on that too?
January 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
doh! A typo… “This book about a name.”
Regardless, I really like this scene – especially the cutesy “TARA” bracelet, her reaction in frame 4, and Rex’s amazing nonchalance.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Liked the plot, but artwork is sub-standard. Taras head is out of proportions in panel two so much that it is unrecognizable (just compare with earlier drawings. Forehead is too low, eyes are too high. She looks like Neanderthal) and that nose of Rex in last panel looks like something I could have drawn (which is bad). If you compare Rex in panel one and panel five, that is not the same person. Everybodys hands in all of the panels are sketchy, non finished. There is no background at all. Actually only good drawings are Rex in first, and Tara in last (and Taras bodylanguage in fourth) panel. And even those are not as good as I have seen you draw.
This is not something you usually draw. This looks like it isn’t your work at all. If you feel that your artwork is not good, then take time to make it better. We can wait a bit longer for better art.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I don’t know, I could wait a bit longer for better art, but I don’t think I could stand waiting much longer for the plot!
January 25th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
MyrddinEmrys: Thanks for catching that typo — we’ll fix that.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:17 am
Actually, I have invested enough belief in the comic that I am happy to look past the technical issues.
Were I expecting a print volume — and I edit books and develop products — I would expect the whole work to go through first and second pages with art review. But this is a developing MS, as it were, and not a production job. It reflects partly the vicissitudes of the authors’ lives and it also reflects their commitment to a body of readers whom they don’t know. Yet they treat strangers with a good deal of respect and camaraderie, or perhaps Christian kindness as well, given the comic.
To receive that unselfish commitment in addition to a darn good yarn that piques the interest of a pastor with a good ten years of postgraduate education in which things medieval and ancient are a fixture, and to get it for EL FREEBO, well, I’m inclined to be charitable and look forward to the graphic novel. Yep, I’d buy it.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Well said, Charles, well said.