DICK RUBY AND THE CASE OF
THE LITTLE GREEN MEN PAGE 8
Funny story
here: So I'm on vacation. In fact, I am about 100 yards from a ship that would
be headed for international waters. Which means I'm about 100 yards from
turning off the cell phone for three days. Matt calls. "I made a mistake.
I got the Man in Black and the Alien backwards. But don't worry I added a line
and fixed it." Now, my suggestion would be to simply swap balloons since
they are both aliens. Panel 4 was going to illustrate that fact thusly: "The
MIB is leaning over Ruby near Ruby's ear, with just his mouth transformed into
the sharp alien teeth." But, to save the page, Matt took a slightly longer route. He pushed the "transmission point" balloon from panel 3 to panel 1 and he added
the "impatient" balloon in panel 3. It works. The only thing lost was
making it clear that all the Men in Black were shape shifting aliens. As you
will see on the next page he took care of that in glorious fashion, so it was
no big deal. Besides, he more than made up for it with the fantastic framing of
panel 2. It was originally simply scripted as a separate panel but the way he
positions it (like it magnifies a portion of panel 1) was, again, absolutely
brilliant. It really is the little
things that thrills writers when the pages come in. Matt's great at the little
stuff. Look at Dick's expression as his face is smashed to the ground.
Priceless. We are still moving at a good pace, and I even manage to set up the
climax sequence with a few lines.
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