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Grrl Power #1351 - Flash... back
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In my head, this page was very different. It was done manga style, meaning the sequence of Flash Drive going down the mountain road took 6 pages, and the panels were much larger. One panel of him cycling fast, a shot of his face with wind roaring past, a shot of him thumbing the gear shift thingy, a shot of the derailleur clicking the chain over, another shot of him cycling with a slightly blurrier background and at a slightly Dutch angle. Then a panel of the shockfront starting to form, then maybe another bike shot with an even blurrier background, even more Dutch and Flash Drive would be covered with some filter that makes him look like he's vibrating, then another of the shockfront large enough to draft off of, then probably a full page shot, possibly so Dutch it's upside down, of him just blasting through the desert, and the vibration filter is gone, but the background is basically just speed lines.
You know how manga is. When you're putting out 10 pages a week or whatever they do, you gotta fill em with something. I think that scene would be pretty cool, though. But at two pages a week, even if I had the time to compress all that into two double sized pages, it would still feel a little obnoxious, IMO. I'm sure most of you can picture almost the exact sequence I described in anime form, with Sydney bursting on frame, yelling, "Is he drafting his own shockfront!?" Then the camera pulls back to reveal the image is Dabbler's Televoyance spell.
I'm not sure "shockfront" is the actual correct word to describe the plume of... whatever that is when something breaks the sound barrier. But then Sydney just said it because it sounded cool. She's not submitting a scientific paper here. Oh, I just looked it up. It's actually called a vapor cone, which is pretty cool. Alternatively it's called a Mach Diamond, which is super cool, but also kind of sounds like a 14 year old boy named it. A 14 year old boy whose own original character is a Utahraptor who pilots an F-22 Raptor - an F-22 that transforms into body armor around the Utahraptor that makes him look like a giant raptor (Naturally this configuration is called the Double Raptor), but one with normal sized arms so he can wield a sword - except it's not a sword, it's a macuahuitl, one of those Aztec cricket bats with the obsidian blades along the edge - only instead of obsidian blades, its Utahraptor talons! Oh, and the Double Raptor still has wings and can fly and shoot missiles, naturally. And his nemesis is the evil Dr. Vintana, who sort of looks like a 20 lb capybara and is trying to bring about the rise of placental mammals! He has a cape. That's how Utah tells him from the other proto-mammals.
Comments
Mathew Aaberg
The ADHD is strong with this blurb. ๐คฃ๐๐คฃ
Tim N
So... Utah raptor guest appearance coming?
