Once More With Feeling...

[shadowkat]

Last one, I promise. All this is probably proving is that I should leave polling to the experts. Hee.

[Poll #976784]

Comments

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics for figuring out the medium. A fun book and also very informative. Comics are often like reading something in a different language, the brain has to get used to the format. It's probably good for making new neurons or something. Someday I will sit down and figure out how to read manga as a way to stave off senility.

Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, I do OK with comics that are stories I haven't seen in another medium. Like I did OK with Fray, for example. But the BtVS one confuses me because the story-telling has to be condensed down to a few pages with a lot of background information and contextual cues cut out, and the slight lack-of-resemblence between the characters as drawn and the actors on the show (which I know is necessary) sometimes gets me confused about who is being depicted in the illustration. This was a major problem in issue #2 where they showed some random blonde tied to a bed having nightmares and being stalked by some other random blonde, and someone had to explain to me that that was Buffy and Amy. If you don't know that's Buffy on the bed, you don't know she's having dreams, you don't know the Xander stuff wasn't real.... throws the whole thing off.

Re: Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

I agree that the art, especially on Amy (yikes), hasn't been the best. I think too that Joss is very deliberately writing these comics like episodes of the show (it's different from his style on X-Men to be sure). It's good and bad, because it makes the things we're missing all the more obvious.

If you don't know that's Buffy on the bed, you don't know she's having dreams, you don't know the Xander stuff wasn't real.... throws the whole thing off.

You thought Xander's head really fell off? ;)

Re: Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

At first, I did. I was really confused.