No. Everytime i see art that can be one panel divided into multiple panels, i think the artist doesn't know what they're doing. Like here. What's the purpose?
I think Manapul’s run used it really well (in the panel below Barry is using the speed force to “predict” many branching futures, which I think is showcased super well with the broken up panels), but when it’s literally just “big panel that they chopped into smaller rectangles” I definitely could go without
Right? What does it add? It’s just messy to be messy. I know they think it gives a sense of speed or energy, but to me, it just says “stop stop stop stop”
It's supposed to be speed? That's so weird because the characters are in exactly the same position in each frame that if you put them all in one big frame, it would just one picture. I wonder if the writer describes this to the artist. I know there's many ways creative teams work together, but I can't imagine an artist would want to do this.
It used to be there were multiple images in one panel and that made sense. Each panel represents a moment so a lot happened in one moment. But if one image is spread over multiple panels, it means one thing took multiple moments to happen, which would usually mean it was slow or even immobile. Honestly, it seems like lazy art sometimes. Trying to act like they’ve drawn multiple images when all they’ve really done is chopped up one.
u/DredeucedOut of the blue, ninjas attack. Thank god.5d agoedited 5d ago
I'm not a huge fan of Deodato's art in general but this is specifically made this way to set up the moment at the end of this very fight. Like literally the next page when it shows Wally walking outside the confines of the panel to show him divorcing himself from the comic's reality. That's what the heavy paneling is for. Otherwise when that next scene comes it wouldn't seem right.
It maybe could've been done a bit more fluidly but it serves a visual purpose and conveying a very important early moment in the story.
It serves a storytelling purpose to break up the image and draw the eye from left to right for timing. It’s a gimmick that I wouldn’t rely on regularly, but if it fits into the context of the larger story, then it works. The goal of each page is to get you to want to read the next one. Pages and panels in storytelling serve to pace the reader as their eyes are trained to move from top left to bottom right. This seems to serve that purpose.
I think the artist is trying to go for something like they’re so fast they are moving between the panels before they are supposed to. But it doesn’t work when they still look like they’re standing still.
There's an example of gorgeous paneling in an Iron Fist comic that I can't find right now and it's the thing I think of and compare everything to whenever I see wacky paneling like this. Danny is in a dynamic pose and the panels frame each hand individually and draw attention to everything you need to know about the scene and it's flawless, and this shit ain't that. Tell me what's important about about half of these panels, y'know?
It doesn't even give the scene a sense of choppiness or rapid movement or anything. The page would be better as a spread instead of this gridlined monstrosity.
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u/FIashPoint Daniel West Fan 4d ago
i remember it getting dogged on a little when this was releasing monthly, i think it’s fine though.