EddieChingLives

I like making lists. Lists of ingredient. I think Joel Silver has a list. He usually has to have a helicopter and a building explode. I remember hearing that legendary comic writer/editor Jim Shooter (Rob Liefeld talks about using the Jim Shooter method of plotting a comic. And check out Magnus Robot Fighter vs Predator. One of my favorite comics ever!) …anyways. Jim talked about studying comics as a kid trying to figure out why his favorite comics were so great. Tropes are fun to list out. TV tropes has a website that should be turned into a book I could buy. Right now, I am studying what kind of shots/storypoints go in the first and last panels of my favorite pages. For instance, first panels can be wide shots of buildings, interior wide shots, or a close/up of a face that reveals more in the following panels. Last panels can be flying off, driving away, walking off, or an OMG cliffhanger page-turner close-ups. Often times the last panel is a cliffhanger, to setup the first

Thinking about comics. Studying McFarlane pages. Sometimes he uses a close-up panel between two action panels. Got me thinking about how to advance the scene. It’s almost like a game. What changed while we were looking at a close up. The angle? The distance between the characters? Maybe the characters are making contact with each other. Maybe one is walking away out of the scene.