010 The Ballad of Claude and Tracey
dangerfunk on July 22, 2007
This page is 75% longer! With bigger pictures and extra color!
Thanks for reading and for sticking around.
Catastrophe USA
dangerfunk on July 22, 2007
This page is 75% longer! With bigger pictures and extra color!
Thanks for reading and for sticking around.
Terminal at 9:20PM, July 23, 2007
Heh, I voted to see the original concept. By gods man, you truley know how to layout a page as seen by this very page right here. I envy you in a good way.
DerrickEwing at 5:40PM, July 23, 2007
O.O Awesome work!!!!
D0m at 2:48PM, July 23, 2007
Very cool, I love this comic. I really don't know what's going on, though. :-( I figure it's kind of like a superhero disaster gone even more wrong in some part of the U.S... anyway, love the art.
dangerfunk at 1:54PM, July 23, 2007
Ha ha, I knew those specific details would get pointed out. My fault for not being careful. For the BIG BRO thing, Lughaidh's right. It just comes from them being really close growing up together. I would have had Claude say "...like your real brother" but it seemed kinda unnatural and would've implied either things that I'm not ready to imply or things that are just completely wrong, so I just settled on that end. The relationship between Claude and Tracey is a complicated one as you'll see as the story progresses. Oh, and about the key thing, you'll find out in the next page that Claude kinda doesn't live there anymore, but he does visit frequently.
Lughaidh at 1:29PM, July 23, 2007
I actually really like the cut-out speech bubbles. Pacing and layout, again, very awesome. Good work on the expressions with Tracey's eyes. I have to agree with Brock about the "Big Bro" statement, it through me off. I'm fairly certain that it's a just a term of endearment from when they were kids and that they're not actually blood-relateed. Also, why are Claude's car keys and house keys seperate? It seems to me like he was driving from the second panel.
Brock at 1:07PM, July 23, 2007
That last panel is fantastic. I just love the composition of it and the staging to get there. Plus, your art has a great feel to it and I always enjoy looking it over. All that said...I had to read this through a couple of times to understand what they were talking. Even now, I'm not so sure. I think the sticking point for me is the fourth panel when Claude says Trace use to call him "Big Bro" but then he mentions her brother and it seems clear he's not talking about himself. This might be cleared up by remembering more clearly what came before, but I guess I don't. Anyways, it just tripped me up, but it's a minor detail at best.