Annotated 31-9
Good job on panel 1, John and me. Gravedust’s visualized examples are simple and effective. Because we’ve just seen E-Merl and Rachel making eyes at each other and Fr’Nj grumbling her concerns about Syr’Nj’s health, watching them slaughter each other hits a lot harder than it would if we were seeing Scipio beating up on Bandit or Frigg waling on Ardaic. But the weapon Rachel’s using indicates that there’s already been some blood spilled behind the scenes.
That said, there’s a reason we did this one-frame nightmare vision and not an extended fantasy sequence. You don’t want to venture too far into gruesome shock just for gruesome shock’s sake. And that’s all I have to say about the alt text. :-)
I do wish panel 2 was a little less ambiguous: it kinda looks like Sundar is still working up the nerve to start following the creature through that tunnel, when really he should be making progress already. Sundar’s far from perfect, but when the dude has a clear duty, he dives right in and does it.
I am blissfully unaware of any Crosseds, but I’ve seen a few webcomics (and some artsy-fartsy french comics) go there, and … well, it’s gimicky.
We’re the generations who lived through the constant memebombings by the 4chan psy-op squads.
We’ve seen Porvocation for Pr0vocation’s sake.
It’s done itself to death and good friggin riddance.
Now to bury the GOP in the same hole.
Avatar Press comic series written by Garth Ennis. Ironically, it did spawn a couple of webcomics sequels
I do feel obliged to say that I’ve seen Ennis put out good work. Crossed is not it.
Yep. Hitman and Preacher are but two of many highlights in Ennis’ resume. Crossed, however, should have been a miniseries instead of an ongoing series. A short miniseries. There’s only so many ways to tell the same story over and over. Alan Moore actually came up with an interesting spin when he wrote a story of Crossed about how the world would be a 100 years after the infected first appeared, but the series overall was mostly “Disfunctional group tries to survive the Crossed apocalypse, and fails in exaggeratedly gory and grotesquely sexual ways, because humanity is sick. Siiick!”. I did read several arcs, but at one point I found it hopelessly repetitive and pointlessly grim
Aside from his obvious career highlights, I’ve quite enjoyed some of his World War 2 comics. There’s one I wish I could have showed my dad, which was the thinly-disguised story of someone who tried to kill him once back in 1945.
Was that from about the time when people thought Frank Miller had some kind of merit?
Silly times, those.
I just saw panel 2 as Sundar being cautious. After all a monster that destroys anything it touches and even ghosts fear, ya I’d be careful and make sure I wasn’t going to instantly die too.
Thank you for continuing with the annotated Guilded Age posts. They are a spot of cheer and decency in my day when those things are very much needed.
I think Gravedust in the nightmare panel hits me the hardest. They are all decent folks, but him especially.