Monday, November 19, 2007

Doom Patrol #14 page 10

Another Doom Patrol page that is up at Secret Headquarters. A simple, nondramatic page, and set in the inside of an airplane, of all the cramped and seemingly uninteresting places! But the cumulus clouds, the curl of the cigarette smoke (when was this supposed to be happening anyway?), the variety of different "camera" angles and degrees of closeness, the clear body language of the characters--all work together to make this a memorable page, not just a section necessary to move the story ahead. Not only that, but using four large horizontal panels rather than a series of square ones gives a sense of quiet to the page.

3 comments:

j_ay said...

Vicki,
You do an excellent job of bringing out many of the visual details in words. Undoubtedly most people read/look at comics *much* too quickly.

I was never into DC Comics (I guess it’s just what you grow up with (relate to?)) and have only read Ted McKeever’s run on Doom Patrol, and while I enjoyed it visually, overall it didn’t capture me like Seth’s all too brief run.
The body language is fantastic in those panels and another hilarity is Beast Boy changing form in *every* panel.

Vicki said...

I never read any Doom Patrol except this one, so I didn't know that Beast Boy didn't always change form in every shot.

j_ay said...

I never read any Doom Patrol except this one, so I didn't know that Beast Boy didn't always change form in every shot.

I’m not terribly well versed in the character, but I’ve also read him in some Teen Titans issues, and I believe he only changes when needed, like fighting. I’d wager anything that 99.9% (if not 100%) of any other artist would just have him in human form for such things as just walking around and riding a plane.
Pure Seth.