I don’t think there’s a well-established resource of comic-book cover tropes, specifically. If there is, though, the “unexpected fight” should be on there somewhere: a battle between two people normally allies, lovers, or at least nominally on the same side. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
>HR may have set himself up for failure by telling us his plan, but he redeems himself a bit here by moving his Plan B into place (or, well, it’s probably Plan D or E at this point) and just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Love that last panel especially, as all the narrative threads “descend” into HR’s magicks. A great use of bird’s-eye-view when worm’s-eye-view would at first seem the more obvious choice. I think this counts as a version of the general rule […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d forgotten most of the details of this scene, and reading it again, I had to chuckle at the sprightly optimism behind the line “Sometimes these things just work out.” The concept of the “happy little accident” was certainly a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rachel and Scipio may be seemingly unflappable in their cheeriness and mildly disdainful disinterest, but at least E-Merl is a worthwhile target when Frigg needs to troll somebody to take the focus off her own discomfort. Three years in, even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
