Right now I have the composite image for the first page complete, and most of the large panel for the second page.
Each page will typically contain one panel that is larger and more detailed than the others. I'll generally put more than half of the time on a given comic into the large panel. This allows me to decompress the storytelling a bit, and still have time to deliver visuals that aren't total crap.
The first page is mostly being held up by my inability to decide on a font and letterbox style. However, I also keep re-writing the text to be displayed.
You see, all the first page needs to do is pan over the lakefront to establish the setting for the scene. No textual information is really required at this stage. Nevertheless, you should never start a comic with a textless page. I've seen it done and it doesn't work.
The text pulls your eyes through the panels one at a time, and provides the right sense of time and rhythm, until the story get's started. I'm thinking neutral verbs or verbless sentence fragments in un-punctuated allcaps, with black text on pale yellow boxes, an inset black border, and no contractions. The big panel should have more text, because then the reader's eye will dwell there longer.
Maybe, I'll use an ellipsis somewhere, but I don't want to get that cliche' so soon.
The second page just needs me to belt out some more action panels. --action panels about a guy reading something. I've got a way to keep it interesting...
I am yet to tweak the page templates as well. So much to do.
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