30.11.07

Gene Day - Master of Kung Fu 6


Pages 8-9/
The first explicit 2-page layout - which will continue from here on in - it has ornamental qualities like a medieval story panel design - or from decorative Chinese art - although never losing a strong cinematic storytelling prerogative - the black background in panels 1 & 3 serve to frame the entire 2-page design
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Panels 4-11 - is one big subdivided panel - climbing the wall and crossing a bridge - to indicate a passage into a special dimension, so to speak,.. all the main players have converged in the ancient domain where the blind archer and his wife are hiding,...
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Panel 12 - there's a progression of expressions on the masks,... a kind of Greek chorus effect... so it's been an exceptionally well-paced introduction sequence as the first clash begins,...

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