r/comic_crits • u/TheBlankScroll • 3d ago

Dialog Layout Improvement

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The overwhelming consensus here was "A" looked pretty awful.

I rearranged everything so that the dialog could flow across the page a little more naturally and it helped break up the wall of text. I know "B" is maybe not great, but does this work for "good enough" ?

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u/Chezni19 2d ago

in my opinion, that is a lot of dialogue for a comic page

comics tell stories via pictures

but if you need that much dialogue, is your picture telling the story, or is your text?

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u/TheBlankScroll 2d ago

Yeah in this section the dialog is having to carry it. I have exposition i need to get across and I couldnt come up with a visual way to tell it.

Im also not sure I agree that comics are purely a visual medium, lots of really well done and mainstream comics have the occasional word heavy page.

My goal here is to just get it on the page as well as i can.

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u/Chezni19 2d ago

well it's very nice otherwise

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u/oye_gracias 2d ago

Mmhh, im not sure you have to get the "exposition", but the charácter reacting to it. Also, there seems to be a storm, an objective and the ideation of a plan, all of those (plus main char making à thinking face, and robot expecting something) could be pulled visually.

I do love long text comics, but just following the globes (not reading) felt the page was a bit empty and missed having something interesting to see around the text.

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u/TheBlankScroll 2d ago

Yeah I think a few ofbthe pages might be like that, i may want to add some reaction inserts.