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Panel
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Abstraction
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Lines
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Words-
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Transition to the next panel
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Additional notes
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Page 1
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Panel 1
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2.5
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The lines of the protagonist are soft with a dynamic slant.
The background is made up of ordered boxy lines with cracks showing instability.
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Picture specific
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Subject to subject
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As the page progresses the action seems to speed up as the tension does. The line work also establishes contrast between the characters. Good and bad characters are outlined visually through the lines they are drawn with. The morally gray protagonist's lines are halfway between the two extremes (the whimsical lines of Kippa and the harsh and unstable lines of the mad prisoner).
As the page progresses the mad prisoner breaks through the ordered 4th wall of bars, establishing the threat and increasing the tension of the scene.
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Panel 2
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4
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Figures made of soft lines behind boxy ordered bars.
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Interdependent
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Subject to subject
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Panel 3
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3
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Soft lines on the left with more unstable lines toward the right, both behind ordered boxy bars.
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Interdependent
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Subject to subject
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Panel 4
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2.5
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The Character’s lines are gentle, soft, or whimsical.
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Interdependent
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Action to action
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Panel 5
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3
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Soft lines become more panicked and unstable, still locked behind ordered boxy lines. The other prisoner’s arm breaks this ordered pattern.
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Picture specific
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Moment to moment
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Panel 6
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1.5
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Savage, deadly, unstable, or dangerous framed by the bars creating a panel within a panel effect.
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Additive
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Subject to subject
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Page 2
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Panel 1
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2.5
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Sharper edges indicate readiness or a more active stance
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Additive
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Subject to subject
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The repetition in panels 3-6 and the layout of the panels mirror the structure and shape of the bars adding to a feeling of entrapment. As the scene grows more brutal the level of abstraction and the linework remain the same, giving a sense of hyper-
realism, returning to softer lines after the gruesome scene has ended.
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Panel 2
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1.5
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Sharp, menacing lines
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Additive
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Moment to moment
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Panel 3
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2
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Sharp and menacing lines continue.
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Picture specific
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Moment to moment
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Panel 4
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2
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Sharp and menacing lines continue.
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Picture specific
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Moment to moment
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Panel 5
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2
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Sharp and menacing lines continue.
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Picture specific
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Moment to moment
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Panel 6
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2
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Sharp and menacing lines continue.
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Picture specific
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Subject to subject
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Panel 7
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3.5
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Soft and gentle lines create contrast with the previous panels
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Picture specific
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Subject to subject
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Panel 8
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3
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Soft and gentle lines create contrast with the previous panels. A “return to normalcy”
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Additive
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NA
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I like the way you work in .5 on abstraction and define the lines. I feel like the colors compliment the lines in creating a menacing environment but having soft, innocent characters. Could the way the blood is presented in the death of the inmate be preparation for the mood and amount of violence throughout the rest of the comic?
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