So, when me n' Boolah sat down to Plot Out this Issue of HFSAC, I figured we needed to check in on the Earth Battle for a page or two. In case you've gotten lost (easy enough to do), the fight with the Vertionce is currently being waged on two fronts: The Heavy Hitters are on the Moon trying to take out the Vertionce himself, while just about everyone else is down on the Last Forest on Earth trying to stop his Army of Evil Angels that look like Robots for some reason even I don't fully understand and why do I even try to make each one look different, seriously? So, when I get the Script in, Boolah wrote something like, "Grand Melee, think Frank Quitely." and he included all of the characters and dialogue he wanted crammed onto the page. Awhile later, Boolah sent in the thumbnails for the book. Now, I love the Layouts Boolah's been sending me. For the most part I've been sticking to them fairly closely and they look really good. But there was something different about this page.
The big panel on this page was BLANK.
So I had a mild heart attack and pulled my newly grown hair out, before I came to realize that this page was one of those challenges I relish. One of the cool things about working with someone else is that every so often they're gonna throw something at you that you don't think you could possibly pull off, and then you have no choice but to rise to the challenge. And the end result is a pretty darn cool page like this.
So, not only did I get all of the characters on the page Boolah wanted, I also managed to cram in a few Angels, Dust (the chick in blue with the skull face), and virtually all of the dialogue (that part was the hardest, I cut one line of dialogue for space reasons, there's an extra Doom Eagle line where he says, "This is Unreal!" Sorry.)
Anyway, instead of approaching the page like Frank Quitely (which would have involved an extreme long shot with characters that were drawn tiny yet with inexplicably intricate detail, all in a perfect simulacrum of motion), I decided to do the page Kirby style, where everything is a mad jumble, yet almost perfectly symmetrical, with varying fields of vision.
Anyway, anyway, I'm very pleased with today's page.
Took forever to finish, though.
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