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Thursday, August 16, 2007 Nailbat Begins #45 I don't think I could have possibly put more heart and soul into this strip without leaving the comic covered in blood and possibly haunted. I do hope it shows. This strip is all about character. Malphas reveals exactly what kind of screwed up phillosophy drives him, even presenting his own viewpoint that Nailbat is the bad guy in all this. More importantly this builds on Nailbat's character, where he has to come to the harsh realization that even an immortal has limits. It's quite important that he takes Darkness' paw here when he rejected it before. Knell herself appears only in the first panel and she's practically a background object, but is the subject of the conversation, none the less. I think her silence though speaks volumes. Now the color in this strip is no mere afterthought or icing on the cake. I tried hard to make Red and Green the dominant colors in this strip. These two colors just happen to also be opposites on the color wheel, and each one has two contrasting symbols. At first the green used on Malphas' money represents his Greed and corruption, while the red used in Nailbat's eyes represents his anger, which he's let get the better of him before, first with Gecko, and later with Snake, falling to his own rage. It's quite important that the "Nothing" panel goes black and white again, representing a sense of emptiness as Malphas has fled the scene leaving Nailbat with a sense of nothingness inside, while he lays battered and beaten alone. When next we seen green it's a faint glow in Darkness eye, and then a flickering flame in his palm, where green has been transformed from the color of evil and corruption into a flicker of hope, and the final panel shows green and red uniting when red is transformed from rage into courage, thus green hope, and red courage are combined representing the heart of a hero. As it took longer like to read these comments than the strip its self I do hope you'll take a few extra minutes to look back and see the deeper meaning in the art its self. Return to ARCHIVE | |||||
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