For issue #3, I’ll be
posting my rough layouts along with each page. Since the writer, Mike Barr, and
I were working “Marvel Style” (in that he gave me a fairly fleshed out plot
outline as opposed to a finished script, writing the dialogue and captions to
my penciled pages) I suggested possible dialogue to go along with my staging,
anticipating that Mike, or the editor, Bob Schreck, would ask for changes in my
layouts before I went into the tight pencils.
Mike Barr, the writer, came
up with the dialogue in panel 1. Pretty droll, right? He was getting into the
spirit of things, I’d say.
Speaking of Jack Kirby, his
influence tends to be more visible on action pages such as this. The “cuts” on
the leaping figure in panel 2 are about as abstractly Kirby-esque as I could
bring myself to get, try as I might. Another, more subtle influence is the way
the background drops out to the right of the panel; the backgrounds usually go
away in Kirby fight scenes.
This is page 8 for "The Mark" issue 3,
volume 2, otherwise known as "The Mark In America", published by Dark
Horse Comics in January 1994. Written by Mike Barr, Drawn by Brad Rader
Previous pages from “The
Mark in America” are archived on the blog page of my website, www.raderofthelostart.com
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