Jeffery Longmont
11-17-2008, 10:47 AM
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Top 10 is back! The Wildstorm series is two issues into the new
story arc, written by Zander Cannon and drawn by Gene Ha.
On this edition of Word Balloon, Gene runs down many behind
the scenes design details, of Top 10's characters, plus we'll
take a detailed look at a preview page of issue #3, and the various easter eggs
in the scenes depicted.
Comparing the writing styles of the series creator, and current writer,
Gene reminds readers that Zander Cannon was providing layouts and
inks for the first twelve issues of Top 10, and was Moore's artist
on the follow up Smax mini series.
"I think Zander isn't quite as gritty or innovative as Alan was,
but I think he's actually a bit better with dialog. Alan usually described his action in the dialog, whereas Zander trusted me enough to draw the action clearly enough. now watch Alan going to find out about this, and will hate me (laughs)."
Ha says Moore has been briefed on the direction of season two.
"It would killed us to find out that Alan hated what we were doing
continuing the series. Zander sent him a detailed description of the plot
we were doing, but never heard back. ...but i called him after
I started drawing it, and he said he really liked what Zander
had sent him."
When asked where Officers Smax and Toybox were in the new story,
Gene assures readers they will be back, later in the series.
Ha is on board for the first story arc and then has a secret Vertigo
project coming up.
Gene also shows us an interesting convention sketch motif he likes
to experiment with. He gets a writer to describe a single image
story scene, and Gene will bring it to life.
To see an example he did with Kurt Busiek, and the page from issue 3, head to www.wordballoon.com
Here's the page they were talking about.
http://i.livescience.com/images/Top10-3-P07-Inks.jpg
Top 10 is back! The Wildstorm series is two issues into the new
story arc, written by Zander Cannon and drawn by Gene Ha.
On this edition of Word Balloon, Gene runs down many behind
the scenes design details, of Top 10's characters, plus we'll
take a detailed look at a preview page of issue #3, and the various easter eggs
in the scenes depicted.
Comparing the writing styles of the series creator, and current writer,
Gene reminds readers that Zander Cannon was providing layouts and
inks for the first twelve issues of Top 10, and was Moore's artist
on the follow up Smax mini series.
"I think Zander isn't quite as gritty or innovative as Alan was,
but I think he's actually a bit better with dialog. Alan usually described his action in the dialog, whereas Zander trusted me enough to draw the action clearly enough. now watch Alan going to find out about this, and will hate me (laughs)."
Ha says Moore has been briefed on the direction of season two.
"It would killed us to find out that Alan hated what we were doing
continuing the series. Zander sent him a detailed description of the plot
we were doing, but never heard back. ...but i called him after
I started drawing it, and he said he really liked what Zander
had sent him."
When asked where Officers Smax and Toybox were in the new story,
Gene assures readers they will be back, later in the series.
Ha is on board for the first story arc and then has a secret Vertigo
project coming up.
Gene also shows us an interesting convention sketch motif he likes
to experiment with. He gets a writer to describe a single image
story scene, and Gene will bring it to life.
To see an example he did with Kurt Busiek, and the page from issue 3, head to www.wordballoon.com
Here's the page they were talking about.
http://i.livescience.com/images/Top10-3-P07-Inks.jpg