Wow! So she’s forcing his hand. I assume she knows what she’s doing (what the result will be) – or at least expects a certain result. If it’s like prior chapters, however, it won’t go quite as she plans… You have to marvel at her knowing that he would grab her, completing the circuit.
The crowd is evidence that all of this happens in just a few seconds – they haven’t turned their heads yet to follow the grappling hook or look at the sound of impact. I like that a lot. I also like the shorthand crowd details in the second cell. From your prior comments about how drawing the crowd was nearly killing you, I grinned when I saw the reduced detail – but it focuses our attention on the two ends of the cable, just as it should.
I also think the way you depict the growing electrical field around the dowser and JHH works really well, as does the way it escapes the frame just a little. I love that transparent looped scribbles accomplish this – and I was wondering if you had to take a few separate takes to get those scribbles the way you wanted. I know from my own work that the energy of a line is often dependent on the speed of execution – the gesture – so I could imagine it might have taken a few passes to get exactly what you wanted. One of the many benefits of digital – erasing recent moves…
And this is another example of the artful arrangement of the cells, their overlapping, and ornamentation. As beautiful as these are online, they work even better in book format, which seems to be your destination. I love my printed copy of the first chapters. The story comes even more to life when all the pages are arranged and turned by hand.
Like cj I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Usual final look detail: I just noticed the way the electrical field highlights the runes on the dowser. That’s great. And I think Vane’s previous questions about what powers it and all the gold all over it now make more sense…
This page reminds me of a battery powered motor kit my Dad and I assembled when I was 12 or so – winding the copper wires on it, etc. One day the batteries were dead and I unhooked the wires from the battery terminals and put the copper ends into the two sides of a wall outlet in the playroom. The motor began to turn ferociously fast – it was a blur – which excited me – but the excess power passed through me and then knocked me backwards on the floor. The motor was burnt out and all my limbs were tingling, but it had been worth it. At the time I knew nothing of the potential dangers… I had been lucky. The expressions on Vane’s and John’s faces look like a lot more power and pain is passing through them, and I imagine they might be locked together by it.
She planned this all along! Having him put the karketolite in the dowser… the whole place is made of the stuff, and the dowser uses some kind of ‘resonance’ to do it’s work.
Now she’s overloaded the thing, and the vibrations are running out of control.
this is a beautiful slow-mo poop hits the fan moment and i cannot wait to see what happens next
I SO AGREE w CJ. Love the sound effects too. 🙂
BAM, right in the jacobs ladder.
Wow! So she’s forcing his hand. I assume she knows what she’s doing (what the result will be) – or at least expects a certain result. If it’s like prior chapters, however, it won’t go quite as she plans… You have to marvel at her knowing that he would grab her, completing the circuit.
The crowd is evidence that all of this happens in just a few seconds – they haven’t turned their heads yet to follow the grappling hook or look at the sound of impact. I like that a lot. I also like the shorthand crowd details in the second cell. From your prior comments about how drawing the crowd was nearly killing you, I grinned when I saw the reduced detail – but it focuses our attention on the two ends of the cable, just as it should.
I also think the way you depict the growing electrical field around the dowser and JHH works really well, as does the way it escapes the frame just a little. I love that transparent looped scribbles accomplish this – and I was wondering if you had to take a few separate takes to get those scribbles the way you wanted. I know from my own work that the energy of a line is often dependent on the speed of execution – the gesture – so I could imagine it might have taken a few passes to get exactly what you wanted. One of the many benefits of digital – erasing recent moves…
And this is another example of the artful arrangement of the cells, their overlapping, and ornamentation. As beautiful as these are online, they work even better in book format, which seems to be your destination. I love my printed copy of the first chapters. The story comes even more to life when all the pages are arranged and turned by hand.
Like cj I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Usual final look detail: I just noticed the way the electrical field highlights the runes on the dowser. That’s great. And I think Vane’s previous questions about what powers it and all the gold all over it now make more sense…
This page reminds me of a battery powered motor kit my Dad and I assembled when I was 12 or so – winding the copper wires on it, etc. One day the batteries were dead and I unhooked the wires from the battery terminals and put the copper ends into the two sides of a wall outlet in the playroom. The motor began to turn ferociously fast – it was a blur – which excited me – but the excess power passed through me and then knocked me backwards on the floor. The motor was burnt out and all my limbs were tingling, but it had been worth it. At the time I knew nothing of the potential dangers… I had been lucky. The expressions on Vane’s and John’s faces look like a lot more power and pain is passing through them, and I imagine they might be locked together by it.
I get the sense that JHH is the one who is forcing Vane’s hand, not the other way around…I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!
awesome
She planned this all along! Having him put the karketolite in the dowser… the whole place is made of the stuff, and the dowser uses some kind of ‘resonance’ to do it’s work.
Now she’s overloaded the thing, and the vibrations are running out of control.
She’s gonna bring the whole place down!
You used the flags!!!
Don’t you just get the feeling that Vane and JHH know something we don’t know? Just a nagging feeling…. 😉