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A Midwinter Nightmare

Fitz

on Jan. 20, 2008

A new page up - as promised :) And I bet most of you are thinking: what the HECK? ;) So let me explain. This is my little attempt at comic noir. You know, Sin City and stuff. Except I don't know JACK about comic noir :) I never read any of the Sin City comics (although I intend to!) I only saw the movie (which I absolutely loved, btw). So basically, what I'm doing here is based on intuition and inspirations from media other than comics. Of course film noir, with its sharp contrasts. But my biggest inspiration here was the 90's Batman: The Animated Series. If you remember the intro - that's the kind of style I was trying to recreate. Same red-and-blue theme. I love how red's taking this page over towards the end. And there's no speech bubbles. The narrative is a monologue. You know, the typical noir, drunken, disillusioned private detective sorta talk. At least I hope it sounds like it. I just wrote it the way I thought sounded noir. All in all, I was trying to make it look a bit like a movie and a bit like a bunch of movie posters. I really like the fonts, too. Got them from Blambot ( http://www.blambot.com/ ) - the one I use for narrative is called Winter in Gotham (how appropriate, especially considering the Batman reference!) and the one for gunshots is called BlamBlam (go figure!)

As for the story - which is probably even more confusing than my sudden change of style… As you might have figured out from the chapter's title and some hints on the page itself - it's a dream sequence. More specifically, a nightmare of being chased. Erica compla– ummm, I mean –noted that the comic's too static, nothing much going on. So there You go, Erica: an action-packed episode, just for You :)

Hope you enjoyed the earlier update :) If you did, I have good news for you: the whole chapter will update weekly! :D It's a bit easier - and faster! - to make due to the simplier style. Then again, it's not THAT much faster, since it's Sunday night, well past midnight and I'm still up :P But oh well, I enjoyed doing this one so much. Looking forward to drawing more!

See you guys next time! Hope I'll see some friendly lurkers come out and say hi, too! Over the past week I got some 7,000 views and about three comments from new readers. Not complaining - because how could I? - but just wondering… So come on, guys, show yourselves :)