As I’ve mentioned before, real estate in expensive in a 24-page comic! I guess it’s not so much with a webcomic, since you aren’t tied to a specific page count. But back when I started doing this story, it was going to be released as 24-page print single issues. It then becomes a bit of work trying to figure out how to best divide up those 24 pages between all the beats of the story for any given issue. For obvious reasons, I give action scenes and scenes with a lot of dialogue the most pages, since they need the room for the best pacing and delivery.
Something like this eats up an entire page with nothing really happening, but I really do love this sort of thing every now and then. Sometimes you just want to commit an entire page to a shot that does nothing else but establish mood, setting, or a calm moment before the storm.
If you have a how to or making of page I would love to see it. Very much enjoying the story.
it’s good to give something room to breathe. it’s annoying in animated films when there’s no grace notes or slow moving calm, just relentless gags or action.
It looks cinematic. In a good way.
I think that it relates forward to the flashback scenes, with a sense of foreboding. Here is Bocce, all alone, watching his friends – his family, walk off into an uncertain situation.
Where are Cember’s tracks? He is definitely heavy enough to leave a trail…