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(Interlude) Page 47

Scott D

on Nov. 27, 2020

It's not often Golden F.'s art gets to shine without my writing and sound effects over it, so allow me to present her in one of her finest moments of expression and direction, unobstructed, for all of you to see.

Sometimes action can be portrayed strictly through visuals, allowing only incidental sound or music without dialogue. Genndy Tartakovsky is known for this with both Samurai Jack and Primal. Others that spring to mind are the iconic stand-off in the cementery from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), the climactic escape shuttle confrontation during Alien (1979), the ceasefire in Children of Men (2006), the dinner table scene from Jaws (1975), the famous one-shot fights from the works of Tony Jaa, and some very lengthy and artistically gorgeous sequences in Pixar's WALL-E (2008) and Up (2009). For non-film examples, doomed mobster Tom Cochrane bids a silent farewell to his beloved family in the Spider-Man anthology Tangled Web, and Masaaki Nakayama's horror manga Fuan no Tane is a collection of minimalist, striking horror shorts, Batman #431 features a breathtaking eight-page scene in which the Caped Crusader goes up against the League of Assassins, and Ricardo Delgado's Age of Reptiles tells absolutely everything through its vibrantly coloured and gruesomely visceral art.

Do you have a favourite scene from a film, show, or comic where nobody has to say a word?

Also, we received this lovely piece from MisterParadigm of Mallory Bash!
—Scott D.

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