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I did an interview last month for Jamais' Webcomic's Reviews and Interviews Podcast "like.... ya know..."

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Another page of dialogue! Never fear, soon there will be some action. I put so much detail in the background of the bottom left panel that I didn't want to have to cover it up with that HUGE balloon. Oh well. I need to get better at visualizing how big my word balloons will be before I paint the page instead of just trying to cram them in however they will fit, after the fact.

Sound Effects

I've always taken a very conservative stance on sound effects. I prefer to stick to the simple tried and true sounds, "Ka-boom" "Thud" "Clang" "Blam" "Vroom" rather than try to reinvent the wheel. Comics that create strange looking sound effects often look silly and leave me unclear how they are intended to sound (although generally there's no wrong answer when it comes to interpreting the noise an explosion makes)

The first volume of Preacher is interesting in that it completely forgoes sound effects except when they are essential to telling the story.. There are only 3 instances of sound effects in the 200 page book. Preacher isn't a comic that's associated with showing restraint so I found this choice to be really interesting.

One section of the Scientists where I was forced to really work hard to think of an appropriate sound effect was the scene where Stuart wakes up in the bio suit.
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I wanted to convey that breathing respirator sound effect while it was in the first person viewpoint. My first idea was to check out some Star Wars comics and see how they handled Darth Vader. Unfortunately in all the comics I could get my hands on, they didn't bother to represent Vader's trademark breathing. I consulted with Trent, and the sound on page 32 is what we ultimately came up with.

Page 38 - The threat is real.

I love that this portion of the script concludes with the ominous yet completely superfluous line that says "There's no denying it now. The threat is real."

*as a side note, up to this point I have been working from an "abridged for the comic adaptation" version of the script that Trent edited. This is as far as the edited version went. From here on out on will be working from the original script and making my own edits as needed.

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