/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1972500
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>Why couldn't watchmen experiment with diagonal panels, big panels, cutting Zone panels boarderless panels

Because that didn't fit with the tone of the book. In fact, that would have been the exact opposite of the tone of the book. Watchmen is not a wild, energetic, bombastic story. It's a very slow, thoughtful and mechanical story. It moves forward like clockwork at a steady pace and thats what the grid adds to the function of the story (in addition to being a tribute to old comics).

The fight scenes aren't supposed to explode with energy, they're supposed to feel underwelming and undramatic because Moore and Gibbons are trying to show how underwelming and undramatic superheroes would be in the real world. If Moore and Gibbons had gone in with all sorts of gimmicky panels to make the action more visceral they would have been undermining their own story.

Besides, all of those fancy panel tricks are only effective in action scenes, of which there are only a handful in Watchmen.

>Ive never read dark night returns, but ill check it out. It seems it experiments a bit more atleast.

It is. While Watchmen was a look back at the past, Dark Knight was a look to the future. Frank Miller was one of the first American artists to feverently read manga and meld some of that influence into his own work. He took a very chaotic approach to the grid.

>I feel like grids like that would work well maybe for a page in a book, not the entire thing!

That defeats the purpose of having a grid in the first place.