More about KMKZ than it actually deserves
Nov. 13th, 2003 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramWent back into Manhattan today to pay my ISP bill in person, since I’ve only got two checks left, and to order more checks.
On the way in, I read the lone comic I’d picked up yesterday, which I’d stuck in my bad and forgotten about: KMKZ (aka Kamikaze), a comic about surfing and extreme sports, from Cliffhanger. It’s not actually very good. Towards the end of the first issue, the apparent protagonist suddenly wonders where his close friend, who hadn’t previously been mentioned or shown, is. We cut to the friend, who briefly mentions a girl he knows. Then, we cut to another scene, where we see a girl die, and she turns out to be the one the friend was talking about. Am I supposed to care?
I picked it up because of the art, which on closer examination i much less interesting than it had seemed. The big curling wave on the opening splash page kicks ass, but the figure rendering seems repetitive after a while. Ah well. Still, I can always use new ways of thinking about simplifying figures. A little inspiration rubbed off, and shows in the sketch on the left:
![[ sketches at Ground ]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/58faa12a5e12/221157-227661/www.grumer.org/lj_images/20031113-ground.gif)
On the way in, I read the lone comic I’d picked up yesterday, which I’d stuck in my bad and forgotten about: KMKZ (aka Kamikaze), a comic about surfing and extreme sports, from Cliffhanger. It’s not actually very good. Towards the end of the first issue, the apparent protagonist suddenly wonders where his close friend, who hadn’t previously been mentioned or shown, is. We cut to the friend, who briefly mentions a girl he knows. Then, we cut to another scene, where we see a girl die, and she turns out to be the one the friend was talking about. Am I supposed to care?
I picked it up because of the art, which on closer examination i much less interesting than it had seemed. The big curling wave on the opening splash page kicks ass, but the figure rendering seems repetitive after a while. Ah well. Still, I can always use new ways of thinking about simplifying figures. A little inspiration rubbed off, and shows in the sketch on the left: