2005 February
Comic Dictionary - Snowball Idea
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, February 27th, 2005 at 9:58 AM EST
A snowball idea is based on the premise of a snowball, rolling down the hill. It starts off as a tiny little snowball, but as it keeps rolling and rolling, it keeps adding more and more snow, until it is one gigantic snowball, and when it hits, it is a big mess.
It applies to comics […]
This Comic Is Good - Pounded
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, February 20th, 2005 at 5:10 PM EST
A line I find myself using often is the following, “This book/movie/comic/TV show took a different approach, but often, there’s a good reason why so many other writers in the past avoided this approach.”
Brian Wood’s Pounded (with art by Steve Rolston) takes a different approach.
But in this case, I believe it pays off.
Comic Dictionary - Cousin Larry Trick
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, February 3rd, 2005 at 9:57 AM EST
If you ever watched the show “Perfect Strangers,” it involved two cousins, one a urban man named Larry, and the other, a foreigner named Balki.
Larry was the kind of guy who was always trying to take the easy way out, to say stuff like “but EVERYbody does it, so it’s okay!” and always trying to […]
