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Broken Sky Page 14
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Broken Sky Page 14

on February 15, 2015
Chapter: Book 7: Broken Sky
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  1. Helianthus
    Helianthus
    February 15, 2015, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    Mr Black, it may not be a good idea to talk about flying bullets…

    • Hertzy
      Hertzy
      February 15, 2015, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      Well, he has previously performed a bullet catch with his spleen.

      • Ben
        Ben
        February 15, 2015, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

        This hit me just right for some reason πŸ˜€

        • Ultima
          Ultima
          May 22, 2018, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

          It apparently didn’t do the same to him.

  2. jsfury
    jsfury
    February 15, 2015, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    Gees Erin, lots of innuendo flying about in this exchange. Eye contact is telling. Guy with the large brim bowler hat and glasses has the “You’re it” syndrome written all over him. I just recently figured out who John Henry is sort of modeled after, trouble is I have no place to post a picture of the person. “This is all going to end in tiers, I just know it.” (THGTTG) Glad you had a good time at the convention, but sorry to hear your sick. My dear, you must take better care of yourself. πŸ˜‰

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      He wasn’t really modeled after anyone in particular but I’d love to see/hear who you have in mind. Thanks as always!

      • jsfury
        jsfury
        February 15, 2015, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        Is there some place where I embed a picture here Erin?

        • Ben
          Ben
          February 16, 2015, 9:15 am | # | Reply

          No, but you can link one.

          • jsfury
            jsfury
            February 16, 2015, 3:19 pm | #

            Okay that would be good. Just let me know when it’s up. πŸ™‚

          • Ben
            Ben
            February 16, 2015, 6:46 pm | #

            Er, huh?

          • jsfury
            jsfury
            February 16, 2015, 9:54 pm | #

            Sorry, sorry, misread your reply. Guess I was tired from all the damn snow shoveling I’ve been doing here. Okay, I just spent three hours trying to find the picture of the actor that I think best portraits JHH. Unfortunately I couldn’t. I did however find a link that should open to the page where there’s lots of promo pictures of said actor. At the bottom of the page that opens you’ll see a good picture that I think looks like the living embodiment of John Henry Hunter. Tell me if you think so Erin. Again, sorry I misunderstood your reply.

            http://www.filmbug.com/db/916/photos

          • mad-ycan
            mad-ycan
            February 17, 2015, 6:10 am | #

            been watching a lot of that actors movie lately and wondered the same thing. they do loock a like^^

          • DeathDave
            DeathDave
            July 19, 2015, 2:36 pm | #

            For your convenience here’s a direct link to the guy who looks like Hunter – http://imagecache5d.allposters.com/watermarker/67-6716-1LKA100Z.jpg

  3. Karyl
    Karyl
    February 15, 2015, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    OMG Erin if you took any more time I for one would just melt down looking at it! From the details of all the lettering, the looks exchanged between Vane and Hunter–it’s almost too much! JUST WONDERFUL!!

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks so much Karyl!

  4. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    February 15, 2015, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    Ha, it’s funny how whenever you post a page that you feel could have used more of your time, it still blows out of the water anything else you can find on the net.

    I wonder how and when this is all going down. Poor bystanders.

    I hope you will feel better soon. Take care.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      Obliged as always, RSG. πŸ™‚

  5. JefLebowski
    JefLebowski
    February 15, 2015, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    They are talking o.o
    That is very fortunate for this mass of squishy bystanders of questionable innocence!

    And I really like their banter.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      Ha. Thanks Jef!

  6. Xample
    Xample
    February 15, 2015, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, she looks like that lady from Faans.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      I … don’t actually know who that is.

      • Darkening
        Darkening
        February 16, 2015, 8:04 am | # | Reply

        I imagine he’s referring to Shanna Cochran from the webcomic Faans!. Good comic, huge archive, heh. And yeah, she does look rather like her, in facial structure at least.

  7. arnly
    arnly
    February 15, 2015, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

    The top of this page looks like Hunter has hi-jacked the comic just as he’s taken over that stage and captured the audience. And then it all comes into focus around just those two – like there is no one else in the room…

    The crowd scene, with everyone pulled back a bit and looking incredulously at Vane also feels like a well directed moment in a movie. You zoom in and out so effectively.

    I feel like the simple blue background at the top puts all the emphasis on the words and on JHH – focused as the crowd would be. Then Vane’s words pop everyone back into the room – into reality (the room reappears in the background) except John Henry has another reality superimposed (his memory). But he doesn’t miss more than a beat and he’s back in the groove… That’s a lot of story and focal movement to accomplish in just a few cells. You are amazingly good at that.

    I love the gold filigree around this page. And the way John Henry can be represented so thoroughly by just his legs and his billowing coat – that’s wonderful, too. As are the shadows and lights on his pants – beautifully done – I sense the strong bones and muscles under the fabric. If you’ve spent time in life drawing classes, I would love the see some of the results – you are such a keen observer.

    And I echo everything Random Spanish Guy says above. Hope you are better soon.

    • Ben
      Ben
      February 15, 2015, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

      I felt like I went too far but simultaneously not far enough with the type handling at the top of the page — thanks so much Arnly.

  8. Emanon
    Emanon
    February 15, 2015, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    “Make love, not war.”

    “Do both, get married.”

    Why do I feel these two will be rolling in the hay shortly, then firing at each other over a burning barn a little bit later.

    • Sandstorm
      Sandstorm
      February 16, 2015, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Geeze, I pulled a muscle in my side laughing at your comment.

      And I think they are or were married in New Orleans in the backstory? But I might be wrong from what I am infering from what our gravious talespinner has spun in the flashbacks.

      And their byplay here is strong again, indeed.

      • Emanon
        Emanon
        February 17, 2015, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

        I really, really need to start from 1 and reread it again. (Never a bad thing!)

  9. Xaverius
    Xaverius
    February 16, 2015, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    How rude, to keep interrupting him like that. She’s interested enough in the dowser to not shoot him on sight, though, so… that probably counts as manners when mizz Black is concerned.

    The black text with yellow outlines is a bit hard to read on a yellowish background of the dowser, but hey, only so much you can do with a wall of text, eh.
    With the rest you did a splendid job, boss lady, first Hunter doing a show, then sudden “oh, I didn’t expect you here” memory of Vane and then the building tension in the last four panels. The blue background actually helps to achieve that, since there’s nothing else to be distracted by and so we have to focus on those two.

  10. Annie
    Annie
    February 16, 2015, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

    I love the text effects in the first panel. They are quite awesome!

    • Annie
      Annie
      February 16, 2015, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

      Why did this thing change me from Eli to the bodyguard dude?

      • Ben
        Ben
        February 17, 2015, 7:19 pm | # | Reply

        Sorry Annie. Like I said in my [belated] response to you here, there was an issue with the WP plugin that handles the assignment of the NTO avatars for folks without Gravatars. While it’s back now, the cache was wiped and no one unfortunately has whatever they used to in 99% of cases. If any regulars were super attached I can probably manually give you your old one or something like it back, though.

        Also, thanks very much!

        • Annie
          Annie
          February 20, 2015, 6:36 am | # | Reply

          No worries, bosslady! Just curious about the techno-wizardry that is above my paygrade. It’s not like I even vaguely resemble either gentleman ;P

  11. Karyl
    Karyl
    February 17, 2015, 6:48 am | # | Reply

    I agree that Hunter bears some potential resemblance to Vincent Price–who supposedly is a distant ancestor of mine! Anyway, a fine character actor, particularly for complicated villains. πŸ˜€

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      February 17, 2015, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      Karyl, I hope Erin see the resemblance too. When I saw the picture of Mr. Price in an off screen candid wearing a white, wide brim gamblers hat I couldn’t believe it. I really saw John Henry in human form. And what better person to portray JHH then this man. Alas he’s been gone now for several years. Rest in Peace Vincent…er is that pieces? xD WELL, HE WAS THE MASTER OF THE MACABRE YA KNOW. πŸ˜‰

      • Ben
        Ben
        February 17, 2015, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        Oh I totally see the resemblance. Also someone else mentioned this before so it’s not just us, either (I had to do a search; it was in the comments here, way at the bottom B0mar brings up VP as a dead ringer for JHH).

        Cursory image search didn’t turn up the gambler’s hat photo you mentioned but I ended up looking at quite a few pictures once I got going. He really smolders (harr) in this one.

        • jsfury
          jsfury
          February 17, 2015, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

          10-4 Erin. πŸ˜‰

  12. Emanon
    Emanon
    February 17, 2015, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

    Erin, please please please please please make the Vote banner a bit bigger?

    It’s so tiny it’s pretty missable and some of us have bad eyes. It’s criminal that your wonderful comic misses any votes!

  13. Xenu
    Xenu
    February 18, 2015, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    So it sucks the life out of people eh? Zombie machine !

  14. SGCEO
    SGCEO
    February 18, 2015, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    That’s quite a sassy look on the eyed Vanes face πŸ˜‰ brilliant contrast to the hate of her modern day counterpart burning a hole through Hunter. This was the best looking webcomic I’d ever seen when I started on page one, and its just gotten better with every page. The fact you make every town/chapter have its own feel and look is probably one of my favourite things about this series. I also love that you are making them are available on the Comixology app for a very modest sum.

    • SGCEO
      SGCEO
      February 18, 2015, 6:13 am | # | Reply

      Sorry should’ve been Sassy look on the BLUE-eyed Vane”

  15. Urist
    Urist
    February 18, 2015, 7:37 am | # | Reply

    Love the chemistry between these two.
    And that inset panel, my god those eyes.

  16. My_Little_Annie
    My_Little_Annie
    February 18, 2015, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    You know, the thing about Vane is that she’s just tirelessly brave. Every time Hunter wrecks her shit, she just fixes it and goes after him again. And now we’re seeing a new kind of bravery. Here she is, a bit messy and not the best dressed, confronting an immaculate, “heroic” Hunter about his pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo in front of a huge crowd. Vane’s like the honey badger, she don’t care.

  17. sarge
    sarge
    December 9, 2016, 9:30 pm | # | Reply

    A little jab at a certain someone’s steel-nerved inaccuracies, eh?

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