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If you’d prefer “ACHTUNG!” we could go with that, but it means pretty much the same thing. I wasn’t going to push it because I realized I had written the panel as “Guard shouts” and didn’t indicate what he was shouting.
You could have had him sing Stairway to Heaven. You could stretch that scene form now until the end of April.
Does she have to have two guns to swing like that? Indiana Jones always did the whip swing thing, but only went from one spot to another. Every comic character that I can think of that uses a rope or other tether in this manner usually has two (Spiderman with dual webslingers, Daredevil with extensions from his two billy clubs, Black Cat who I think has two grappling hooks that she uses, and even Tarzan technically as he goes from vine to vine). I never read enough DC stuff to know what characters they have that use similar methods of transportation. I’m sure Batman probably rigged something like that at one point; normally he just had the one grappling hook for going from point A to point B with no point C in mind.
I’ve decided why he only says “alarm”. The area is guarded by very strong, but not very bright guards. They tried teaching them to give more complicated or detailed alarm messages, but after the three hundreth time of hearing “unknown individual has broken the perimeter” turned into “a cloaked antelope has raked for a meter”, they decided to just go with teaching them to say “alarm”.
Batman had, as an option, the amazing power (and imagination) of the late 20th century at his disposal. Tassin, between pages 18 and 21, cannot possibly reload what is essentially a musket. So yeah she has at least two of them, but I expect she using them batman style to swing from point A to B, rather than *vectoring* like Spiderman does.
That actually gives a lot of information about what level of technology we should expect out of most of the characters. Just because they have that medieval look to them, it doesn’t mean that the technology is equivalent to historical technology. I mean, they have magic people!
Excuse me, but what “an issue”?
That person might be just by chance practising rope swinging in the vincinity of a possible fire that just started and not have anything to do with it.
The guard is surely bright enough (Lantern of Brightness +5) to realize that. ;P
What I prefer to think (an indeed dictate) happened is that as a guard he was not normally looking for aerial threats and causes for concern. He was patrolling ground level looking for people in distress and ne’er-do-wells. Then he saw something out of the corner of his eye (which happened to be a young woman flying through the air, but he’s not trained to recognize that out of the corner of his eye), and when he looked up, saw something much more identifiable– smoke drifting out of a window.
Did he actually see Tassin? We’ll get to that. But let’s go with priorities. You know that kitchen drawer full of tools and oddities that don’t really belong anywhere else but you know you’ll regret disposing of? Imagine half of those things are magical, and you have ten thousand of those drawers, and you just saw someone run out of your kitchen which is now on fire.
Excellent work on this page Reiss. I love the level of detailing - just right for a comic. The coblestone gestures are a nice touch to give texture, yet the man’s face in the bottom right panel is a very effective simplified shading technique. Keep up the good work guys (not to discredit squid with a interesting storytelling :]).
March 31st, 2008 at 10:11 am
“ALARM!” - >< Heh, I guess it gets the job done, but it’s hardly the most descriptive of cries for a watchmen to be crying.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:41 am
If you’d prefer “ACHTUNG!” we could go with that, but it means pretty much the same thing. I wasn’t going to push it because I realized I had written the panel as “Guard shouts” and didn’t indicate what he was shouting.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
You could have had him sing Stairway to Heaven. You could stretch that scene form now until the end of April.
Does she have to have two guns to swing like that? Indiana Jones always did the whip swing thing, but only went from one spot to another. Every comic character that I can think of that uses a rope or other tether in this manner usually has two (Spiderman with dual webslingers, Daredevil with extensions from his two billy clubs, Black Cat who I think has two grappling hooks that she uses, and even Tarzan technically as he goes from vine to vine). I never read enough DC stuff to know what characters they have that use similar methods of transportation. I’m sure Batman probably rigged something like that at one point; normally he just had the one grappling hook for going from point A to point B with no point C in mind.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I’ve decided why he only says “alarm”. The area is guarded by very strong, but not very bright guards. They tried teaching them to give more complicated or detailed alarm messages, but after the three hundreth time of hearing “unknown individual has broken the perimeter” turned into “a cloaked antelope has raked for a meter”, they decided to just go with teaching them to say “alarm”.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Batman had, as an option, the amazing power (and imagination) of the late 20th century at his disposal. Tassin, between pages 18 and 21, cannot possibly reload what is essentially a musket. So yeah she has at least two of them, but I expect she using them batman style to swing from point A to B, rather than *vectoring* like Spiderman does.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
That actually gives a lot of information about what level of technology we should expect out of most of the characters. Just because they have that medieval look to them, it doesn’t mean that the technology is equivalent to historical technology. I mean, they have magic people!
March 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I like to think she has one up each sleeve.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:34 pm
The guards are chosen for their thick skulls so they can save money on knock-off helmets
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
But hey, hey - he’s bright enough to realize that a fire in a library isn’t a good thing^^
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
But not bright enough to realize a person swinging away from a possible fire that just started is an issue.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
he’s plenty bright
he has a lantern
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Excuse me, but what “an issue”?
That person might be just by chance practising rope swinging in the vincinity of a possible fire that just started and not have anything to do with it.
The guard is surely bright enough (Lantern of Brightness +5) to realize that. ;P
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
What I prefer to think (an indeed dictate) happened is that as a guard he was not normally looking for aerial threats and causes for concern. He was patrolling ground level looking for people in distress and ne’er-do-wells. Then he saw something out of the corner of his eye (which happened to be a young woman flying through the air, but he’s not trained to recognize that out of the corner of his eye), and when he looked up, saw something much more identifiable– smoke drifting out of a window.
Did he actually see Tassin? We’ll get to that. But let’s go with priorities. You know that kitchen drawer full of tools and oddities that don’t really belong anywhere else but you know you’ll regret disposing of? Imagine half of those things are magical, and you have ten thousand of those drawers, and you just saw someone run out of your kitchen which is now on fire.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
That’s a big kitchen.
So if half are magical, what are the other half? My vote is shiny. I like shiny.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Shiny?
That dragon thing was shiny!
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Excellent work on this page Reiss. I love the level of detailing - just right for a comic. The coblestone gestures are a nice touch to give texture, yet the man’s face in the bottom right panel is a very effective simplified shading technique. Keep up the good work guys (not to discredit squid with a interesting storytelling :]).
April 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I approve of this comic.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Never seen a dialogue bubbled scribbled like that. Imaginitive and unique.