The T-Shirt
I love love the shirt. Sometimes also phrased as "normal service will be resumed shortly", or something similar. It's one of those inside jokes thing, sort of like the all your base phenomenon. [from Lucifer.]
I used to think that $20-30 was ridiculous to pay for a graphic novel, but I rationalised it as paying for 50-odd pages of colour printing. I now know better: it's hard enough to tell a story, much less draw and lay it out on a storyboard representation! For $30, the art is CHEAP. DIRT CHEAP. But I wouldn't be lobbying for higher prices anytime soon, of course. :)
I still don't really get the whole manga comic narrative though. Why spend a two-page spread showing me that the character has heard something important (cue the large "!!!" above his head) and turns around (the next 10 panels, with lots of shwishy lines to indicate movement), and finally, in the last panel, an additional drop of sweat appearing above his left eyebrow? My cousin tried to explain it to me before (he's mad about manga); something about the Japanese comic narrative being predicated on movement, rather than on dialogue, which is what the anglo-comic tradition leans upon. I understood it, but I don't think I'll be picking up any Japanese manga anytime soon. I tried reading some once in Sec 4 (I remember RX lending me a four-book collection), and what I remember most from the book were: (1) the pictures were really plain (mostly b/w line art), (2) there was sex in it (no, it was decidedly NOT hentai), and (3) I did a lot of page flipping, because there was quite a lot of "useless" character movement.
[The T-Shirt]
Sngs Alumni @ 16.3.06 { 0 comments }
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