Layout and rhythm...

[Peganthyrus]

I've noticed that all the installments of the current arc are in rigidly-defined vertical panels. Now, it's quite possible that you have plans to break this format at some point appropriate to the story - for why does an artist establish patterns, if not to break them? - but the thought comes to mind that it might be interesting to just string them all together, one right after the other, in a wide, wide, wide page.

You know, the sort of layout that makes Scott McCloud start frothing at the mouth about the endless potential of drawing the user in via subtle interactions that only web comics have.

Like this: (warning, this will likely take forever to load, given Keenspace's speed.)
[img src=http://lacunae.keenspace.com/comics/20020624.jpg][img src=http://lacunae.keenspace.com/comics/220020626.jpg][img src=http://lacunae.keenspace.com/comics/20020628.jpg][img src=http://lacunae.keenspace.com/comics/20020701.jpg]

-Peggy

[Peganthyrus]

Drat, neither real HTML nor BBS pseudo-HTML worked. Oh well; if you can read HTML, you get the idea, I hope.

-Peggy

[DaCommunistpunk]

I understand what you're saying, and I think it would be interesting like that, too...

~Daaa

[Siege]

The problem, though, is with those people who don't quite grasp that the window can be scrolled sideways to view the stuff disappearing off that edge. This is despite the horizontal scrollbar that wasn't present before the page loaded, and the fact that the content seems to be cut off at the edge of the window.

[Peganthyrus]

Well, that's why you could always include a note at the beginning saying 'scroll right->".

For an example of deliberately-scrolling comics, check out 'When I Am King' at http://www.demian5.com/ - it's done, so be prepared to spend several hours reading it!

[Silverblue]

Well, that's why you could always include a note at the beginning saying 'scroll right->".
For an example of deliberately-scrolling comics, check out 'When I Am King' at http://www.demian5.com/ - it's done, so be prepared to spend several hours reading it!

The scrolling idea is something I'd thought of as well - I'm experimenting somewhat with layout and will probably finish this arc keeping to the same vertical panel layout.

I can see a couple of problems with it, the main one being load time, followed by the fact that while the panels would fit into one long line, they're conceived of in 'chunks'. I'm not sure that they'd read as well all next to each other. Not that one couldn't cue the reader to the sections by various methods, so it's probably still worth a try...

We'll see 8)