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Scarab #7 (blank caption boxes)

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 6/4/01, 6:01 a.m.

In Response To: Up at 4 am writing... (Maxonestar)

: And I'm going crazy, but I need to finish the script for
: issue two of my book tonight. I have a question for
: you though, are you still releasing Reflections
: volumes occaisionally or has that stopped? I honestly
: have no idea why I like Reflections so much but I do.
: Flip through them all the time. The one where you
: broke down you and Joe Q.'s Daredevil cover
: collabaration is a favorite. I really have a thing for
: sketchbooks, and reflections is an extremely
: professional sketchbook in my opinion. Ah well, back
: to the story.

Hi Rob,
Really glad that you like Reflections. I do plant to continue them. I'm sure I will get back on track with that and the Scarab Art book now that I have just finished DD and will be finishing up the Scarab story soon. But I'm really glad that you get something from it.

: oh yeah, this is why I got online in the first place.
: Have you had a chance to find out the paper grade for
: Scarab by the way? My current plan is to print a
: minamum print run of the first issue of my book to
: present to small press publishers. It's a fairly long
: series (plotted for twelve issues) and I plan on
: scripting the entire thing and getting at least the
: first five issues drawn before I present it to anyone.
: Do you think this is a good idea?

Sounds like a good idea. I will send an email reminder to the Image production guy about the paper grade today.

: Also wondering if the original art for page #11 from
: Scarab #7 was available? That page rocks...

I'm pretty sure that I have recieved it back from the printer and I know that I have not sold it yet. So, Yes. I will go ahead and say that it is still available.

: Hey new question, on page #10 there's alot of empty
: narration boxes, intentional or misprint?
: -Rob (broadcasting from my den)

Intentional. But you are not the first, or second, or third, or fourth to ask that.
I did have words in each of those boxes at first. Then I decided that I liked it better for a few different reasons with out the words, so I pasted little white pieces of paper over the words to block them out. Some times the words are more interesting in their absence.

I decided that I liked the page with the caption boxes, but with them blank. I didn't that she should go on talking the same way as the other pages after she just got blown of her moter cycle. It sort of seems like her train of thought is broken and that it takes her a few blank cation boxes to get her focus back together. Also I liked the rythm in contrast to her words on the other pages of the sequence. The silence lets it breath here. It makes sure you are still paying attention. Knocks the wind out of the reader the same way it did to her.

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Messages In This Thread

NEW: Up at 4 am writing... -- Maxonestar -- MON, 6/4/01, 4:09 a.m.
NEW: Scarab #7 (blank caption boxes) -- MACK! -- MON, 6/4/01, 6:01 a.m.
NEW: Re: Scarab #7 (blank caption boxes) -- Maxonestar -- MON, 6/4/01, 3:13 p.m.
NEW: Scarab Artbook -- MACK! -- MON, 6/4/01, 5:46 p.m.
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