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Redridge Express Page 3
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Redridge Express Page 3

on February 1, 2014
Chapter: Book 6: The Redridge Express
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  1. Annie
    Annie
    February 1, 2014, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    Lovely sky and the colour saturation continues to be gorgeous. And I really like Hunter’s pose in 4th panel.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks!

  2. ShaneS
    ShaneS
    February 1, 2014, 9:34 am | # | Reply

    This is a chapter about people drinking coffee.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      Pretty much.

      • Killjoy
        Killjoy
        February 20, 2014, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

        The most beautiful ode to coffee that has and will ever exist well done Erin. You are the best comic artist i have ever come across thank you so much for this amazing story

  3. Sarah
    Sarah
    February 1, 2014, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    How in tarnation does Hunter keep managing to get his hands on such snazzy clothes??? What did he swap for this get-up?

    Not that I’m complaining, mind you 😀

    Best use of fire powers; drinks will always be hot. How does he manage to heat the coffee pot without damaging his gloves though?

    • the other ghost girl
      the other ghost girl
      February 3, 2014, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      Magic is only one of many talents, he is also a very talented designer and steamster/tailor

    • tuco
      tuco
      February 3, 2014, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      does the fire actually project outward from the surface of his fingers? I’m remembering there being a space, but that could be wrong

  4. Piripero
    Piripero
    February 1, 2014, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    Brilliant.

    Love that I could pick out where Hunter is in that landscape.

    …and I hope that’s foreshadowing…

    • Bxious
      Bxious
      February 2, 2014, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      Well, I’m trying to find him on the landscape, but can’t, I never was good at Where’s Wally 😛
      I see some smoke in the red forest on the center/left but Hunter is on a mountain ledge, not in the forest. Could You tell me, please, where is John Hunter? (also, I’m going to check if it’s able to find him on the previous strip 😀 )

      • Lleyn
        Lleyn
        February 3, 2014, 9:14 am | # | Reply

        The smoke in the forest is probably from the approaching train (the tracks come from there, too). I can’t really make out Hunter either in that beautiful picture with the indian summer trees, but since he’s sitting on a ledge, I’d say that the first ledge on that mountain in the middle looks perfect for me to not only comfortably perch there for a while, but also is a good vantage point to overlook the valley -and- provides a good starting point if someone is insane enough to want to -jump- onto that train.

        • Bxious
          Bxious
          February 3, 2014, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, I supposed it’s from the train and I tought that the middle ledge is the one where we can find Hunter, yet even the lowest visible ledge on that mountain seems quite high to jump from onto a train. And it seems impossible to me to find that mountain (to be sure it’s that mountain) on the previous strip, I suppose the “camera” angle changed drastically. Well, can’t wait to see how this beautiful scenery blooms with effects of Hunter’s (and probably Black’s) actions.

          • Ben
            Ben
            February 3, 2014, 2:52 pm | #

            The smoke is from the oncoming train, yes, and this particular tract of country would not have been visible from the previous page, no.

            Thanks guys!

  5. Tie Toter
    Tie Toter
    February 1, 2014, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

    This has quickly become my favorite comic. Although the author keeps crossing the line between “cartoonist” and genuine “artist” more and more frequently.
    Beautiful work.
    Thanks for another great strip.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks so much for the kind words, although I’m not sure how I feel about the differentiation between “cartoonist” and “artist”…?

      • Kerlyssa
        Kerlyssa
        February 4, 2014, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

        It’s when Bill Watterson draws a robin for the Sunday strip.

  6. Arnly
    Arnly
    February 1, 2014, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

    Just a well dressed man in the middle of nowhere with his well appointed coffee pot… Feels like magic. Beautifully arranged page – love the landscape. The light spots (almost like water spatter) in the sky add to the light and life of the air. And I grinned at the way the steam in the first inset panel escapes the inset’s frame into the larger panel behind.

    Great composition on the close-up of Hunter’s waistcoat and watch pocket. Actually, your use of distance frame by frame is one of my favorite things about the comic. Like some of the best Western movies, driving the silent parts of the story, in particular, with great camera work.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      February 1, 2014, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      The light spots (almost like water spatter) in the sky add to the light and life of the air.

      Arnly, have you ever seen in movies when the camera does a long shot towards a bright sky the dust in the air will reflect that light? Do you think Arin is emulating that in her art? That’s what I’m getting. This so damn cool.

      • Ben
        Ben
        February 3, 2014, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

        Do you mean lens flare? Ha. In this case it’s a happy accident with the texture.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks so much Arnly; I’ve come to really look forward to your comments. Your analysis is always super well thought-out and complimentary and they’re always huge pick-me-ups!

  7. jsfury
    jsfury
    February 1, 2014, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

    What are you up to now John Henry? The wheels are turning.

  8. Karyl
    Karyl
    February 1, 2014, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

    Somehow the great pile of rocks and scarp on the right in the last panel remind me of a reptilian skull—and just adds yet another appropriately eerie aspect to an otherwise relatively benign Hunter scene. LOVE the fired up coffee pot! and the colors, the atmosphere, and………

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks Karyl!

  9. My_Little_Annie
    My_Little_Annie
    February 2, 2014, 11:36 am | # | Reply

    …but can he make TOAST?

    Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. And as usual, incredible detail. I love the way the coffee pot reflects some of the surrounding color.

    I have to say, though, this simple scene makes me hate JHH more. He’s such a dandy. Who the hell can climb up a rock face, with a full pot of coffee, and not even displace his perfectly folded pocket square?! An evil bastard, that’s who. Look at him and his fancy-ass gloves. Just LOOK at his spotless spats, and his perfectly white shirt, and his pleased little smile.

    I hate you, JHH. You’re too tidy to be human.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      February 2, 2014, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

      Easy Annie, easy now. Don’t let that john Henry get the best of ya. ;D

    • Nick Manly
      Nick Manly
      February 2, 2014, 11:21 pm | # | Reply

      Along with the awesome fire powers, wherever he got it, threw in an aura of style as well so everything is in it’s place unless it serves to make him look cooler and more badass.

      I know I’d ask for it along with super powers.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      Of course he can make toast … and of course it would be evenly and delicately browned and crisp without; soft and moist within. And you’d hate it for its perfection. Outwardly. In your heart of hearts though you’d just want another slice of toast.

  10. GuyFugly
    GuyFugly
    February 3, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Dag, Erin, these last few pages have been kickin rad with the colors.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks Eric. Almost no one whose color-praise could mean more to me than yours!

  11. gothold
    gothold
    February 3, 2014, 8:35 am | # | Reply

    Beautiful art work, reminds me of fall in new England! As to Hunter I agree with Annie, This snake is up to something and I fell it ain’t good!

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

      My painted fall invoking real fall is high praise! Thank you kindly!

  12. the other ghost girl
    the other ghost girl
    February 3, 2014, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    love the scenery here

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks!

  13. order99
    order99
    February 3, 2014, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

    Although I love art in general, both painting and sculpture, I have had two artists which I have consistently called favorite throughout my life…the stark lithography and sketchwork of Albrecht Durer (not so much the oils in all honesty) and the riotous colors of Hokusai.

    After seeing the last few pages Erin-I feel the need to apologize deeply and repeatedly to the late Master Hokusai,for watching you knock him from his perch.

    (bows deeply towards the East)

    Please don’t take up Lithography anytime soon-if you show as much talent and technique there as you do in color, I will have to learn to apologize in German… 🙁

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 3, 2014, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

      H’oh my. Dethroning Katsushika Hokusai? Thank you kindly, sir, for the outrageously high praise!

  14. Kerlyssa
    Kerlyssa
    February 4, 2014, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

    Jesus, those are some dapper toe holsters.

    Not pictured is the clothes iron he carries everywhere.

    • Madame Manga
      Madame Manga
      February 4, 2014, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently he not only crisps bread and warms coffee, he steam-presses collars and cuffs… and likely also can pull off a mean finger-wave.

  15. Reo
    Reo
    February 8, 2014, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Cos every girl crazy ’bout a sharp-dressed man… who makes hot coffee by MAGIC… amidst gorgeous scenery… *swoon*

  16. Shonkin
    Shonkin
    August 10, 2021, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

    The landscape has one (literally) unearthly feature. Those spires look like granite; almost no other kind of rock makes big, bouldery forms with absolutely no talus slopes anywhere. But there is a huge, perfectly round hole in the bedrock at right center.
    What made it? Erosion wouldn’t do that in granite. Something magical I suspect!

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