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--- Quote from: John C on August 29, 2010, 03:44:19 PM ---Interesting.  I don't disagree, now that you've both mentioned it, but I saw the "flow" immediately.  I don't know if it's in the panel arrangement or I just automatically assume that it reads like (English) text.  There's probably a good psychological (or "user experience") study, there.  I imagine it's a "forest-or-trees" issue of some sort.

Or maybe the books I started reading didn't have that affordance.  You've mentioned that it mostly started as a Kirby thing, and I've usually avoided both Kirby's work and that of most of his direct imitators.  Don't know.  As I said, it's a point of disagreement that strikes me as interesting, and I'm sure a product design student could have a field day with it.

What drew me in, though, was that I could see the story in each panel, which is something I've only rarely seen...and then only in much-maligned pencillers like Mike Sekowsky.  I worry less about (and probably look for less of) the inter-panel continuity, since down that path in less talented hands, lies (shudder) "decompression," the horrifying idea that comics should be directed like movies with long sweeps of nothingness...

(And Mistah Spammah, to adapt Joseph Conrad, he dead.  Banned by every measure, and threads removed.  Until the next one shows up, "he dead," I mean.)

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I could go into detail on the misdirection of the page that I gave up on, John,
but I'm just not that impressed with the strip to give it that kind of attention. I'm happy for you that you like it. it's just not my cup of tea, and few modern strips are. If you can "see the story in each panel" then you've got more imagination than I do.

but I begin to digress into discussion, and I'd much rather continue reading my book, "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook." Don't ask me why. Anthony Bourdain is a good writer and I happen to like food. I actually bought two (count 'em, TWO) digest Vertigo Crime books when picking up the latest issue of Echo on Thursday. One was Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera and the other was # Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos. I think that the artists are European (probably Italian) and display a more fundamental knowledge of comic storytelling than a lot of American newbies. But I'm discussing and digressing again and Bourdain is calling.

Enjoy the web and its comics. You get what you pay for (though occasionally, like Sin Titulo, you are given a great gift - for which I sincerely thank you for the recommendation).

Peace, Jim (|:{>

narfstar:
I recommend johnnysaturn.com  I did not know it was a webcomic originally. I got the first six downloads at Wowio. Found out there were more later and got the next three at drivethrucomics.com which has the first issue for free. If you do not mind webcomics you can read them all free. Has a nice edge that I like.

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