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Sunday 14 July 2013
SUPER SUNDAY SPECIAL SELECTION: JOHNNY FUTURE BATTLES FRED FLINTSTONE'S BIG BROTHER - PART THREE...
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Those page counts really do vary, as we've discussed before, three pages in one installment, five in another. Now that he can take to the air JF is certainly racking up those frequent flyer points, and quite convincingly as you say. One wonders whatever possessed them to tack that tacky impression of a caveman in the first panel? I think even Fred would disown that brother. And how very British of young Rick doing the underwater lark in his best three piece suit. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Johnny Future fighting my ex-brother in law? (Sorry, kid, I just couldn't resist. Seriously, he was a piece of work)
ReplyDeleteAnother top notch installment of Johnny Future.
ReplyDeleteInteresting use of panels to tell the story. They are of all different configurations and shapes that convey the flow of action remarkably well.
It's a little odd that all the giants are male, one would expect some to be female.
Why were other "artists" needed to draw/ redraw the giant figure, didn't Bermejo do a good enough job in the first instance?
Do you know of any other work that Bermejo produced?
Phil, I guess the caveman was tacked on simply to dramatically establish who had flung the boulder, but it has less than the desired effect, what with ol' Cavey's half-hearted fling.
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Anon, he speaks highly of you.
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Jeff, Bermejo drew great a caveman, but he drew him either naked or with trunks. Editorial must have supposed that he either looked too naked ('though nothing would have been on display) or that the trunks looked silly and were unbelievable, given his origin.
Sorry to say that I'm not familiar with any other strip Bermejo drew, apart from maybe the occasional 'one-off' for the odd annual or two.
Yeah, I spotted that throwing figure on the first page, it's something of contrast from the excellent figure in the last episode. I do think the hair has been rendered a little more effectively with this instalment as well, there's some actual modelling going on.
ReplyDeleteStill a bit dodgy on page 3, DSE.
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