The emotions that David Hellman and Dale Beran play with are powerful, they produce the most moving web-based single page graphic works I have ever encountered. It's fantastic. This particular comic's use of color to highlight moments in both time and emotion is pretty impressive; fight scenes in The Assemblage could use this tactic to highlight the three combatants' perspectives (view screens?).Yes, our creative work has been titled "The Assemblage" and yes, we are going to try and throw in as much Mille Plateaux as possible. There will be fighting. A lot of it.
Anyway, Hellman/Beran started out pretty slow:
Picked up speed / learned about perspective blending and placement:
And now have a wonderfully developed style of their own. I would consider these guys (along with DresdenCodak) some of the greatest webcomic artists working today. Their creations indulge our senses visually and play with us emotionally at the same time. It's really the same effect, one brings about the other:
What if I Joomlaed their use of color in text bubbles/panels into my own stuff? Aren't they just copying Marvel (Deadpool does the same thing, or did for awhile). Opinions?
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I know that you are trying to provoke opinion by saying "Aren't they just copying Marvel?" However, to say that they, of all people, are copying Marvel because they colored in their word balloons is silly. What Dale and David do with comics is definitely NOT the Marvel way. And for what it's worth, DC's Sandman, in issue 1, all the way through the series, used to color in word balloons. Many image comics do this as well, and this has been a common practice among some sunday strips long before Deadpool had his own spinoff book.
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