This was originally published in Dogbreath 21, but I submitted it without and captions or dialogue. I was quite pleased with the result, confident that it told a clear narrative without words.
This week I had an idea - why not put it up on the 2000AD forum and see if any of the aspiring script doirds fancied having a stab at adding words to it, just for the fun/practice? Thought it might be interesting for whoever took up the challenge to have to work backwards. Lo and behold Matthew McLaughlin answered the call, and bashed this out in a few days. A mighty fine effort too. Matthew has various projects in the pipeline for the small press - keep an eye out.
So here we are - Durham Red in 'Long Time Coming', the extended director's cut!
Fine verbiage which doesn't detract from the story, but I stick with my conviction that it is a damn fine piece of purely visual storytelling (which is a tricky thing to pull off) and doesn't need words.
ReplyDeleteGetting some words on it was a good experiment though and it seems to have worked out nicely.
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ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought - purely an experiment, good practice for all involved (I got to do some lettering again, which I quite enjoy).
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm rather impressed by Matt's narrative.
Cheers for the kind words mate.
Yes indeed - it is a tricky endeavour, when you've not originally been in charge of the plotting and pacing, but it worked out well.
ReplyDeleteI should also say the lettering is good too. Having the captions on a slant at the bottom of the first page was a nice touch.
Top marks all round :)