chinaboatman (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chinaboatman) wrote in glycon, |
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The recurring images are a common Moore technique of course; the thing that strikes me as being wrong is the caption placement. Take page 1 as an example:
The wave image should surely be the first panel, fitting with the caption about a 'great tide of money'. The panel with the newspaper should surely contain the caption starting with the line 'the newspaper arrives' and the caption regarding the wood should surely accompany the respective image. We know that it is a common Moore technique to have the text chime with the imagery. He uses the visual to complement the prose, the narrative itself told perfectly well just with Moore's words ala Brought to Light.
There are a number of pages where the captions seem to be placed wrongly like this. Look at the bottom panels on the final page. they should clearly be the other way around. Or perhaps the text should be the other way around. the left should be on the right and vice versa.
At first i thought that Moore may have been doing some clever right to left thing because of the Japanese theme (Japanese strips being read right to left of course, just like Japanese writing)but looking at the other pages there is no rhyme or reason to it that i can see. On page 158 for example the first and last panels appear to be mixed up and the other two seem right.
In contrast agian page 160 seems completely correct. There is no pattern to the seeming mistakes leading me to think that they must be exactly that.
About the how and why of all this I can only guess that perhaps the panels were rendered seperatley and then 'pasted' onto the pages in the 4 square grids. Except that whoever pasted them seemingly didn't know the correct order they should go in.. Clearly the lettering has not been done in any organic way and has been pasted onto the panels too.
I can't believe that this is the way Moore inteded it to be laid out. It jsut doesn't fit with his style for the captions to be placed so thoughtlessly, with the metaphors and motifs not matched up.
The recurring images are a common Moore technique of course; the thing that strikes me as being wrong is the caption placement. Take page 1 as an example:
The wave image should surely be the first panel, fitting with the caption about a 'great tide of money'. The panel with the newspaper should surely contain the caption starting with the line 'the newspaper arrives' and the caption regarding the wood should surely accompany the respective image. We know that it is a common Moore technique to have the text chime with the imagery. He uses the visual to complement the prose, the narrative itself told perfectly well just with Moore's words ala Brought to Light.
There are a number of pages where the captions seem to be placed wrongly like this. Look at the bottom panels on the final page. they should clearly be the other way around. Or perhaps the text should be the other way around. the left should be on the right and vice versa.
At first i thought that Moore may have been doing some clever right to left thing because of the Japanese theme (Japanese strips being read right to left of course, just like Japanese writing)but looking at the other pages there is no rhyme or reason to it that i can see. On page 158 for example the first and last panels appear to be mixed up and the other two seem right.
In contrast agian page 160 seems completely correct. There is no pattern to the seeming mistakes leading me to think that they must be exactly that.
About the how and why of all this I can only guess that perhaps the panels were rendered seperatley and then 'pasted' onto the pages in the 4 square grids. Except that whoever pasted them seemingly didn't know the correct order they should go in.. Clearly the lettering has not been done in any organic way and has been pasted onto the panels too.
I can't believe that this is the way Moore inteded it to be laid out. It jsut doesn't fit with his style for the captions to be placed so thoughtlessly, with the metaphors and motifs not matched up.
