Random Stuff 3 - Curious Comics Response

[quinara]

I don't know why I persist in wandering over to Whedonesque every now and then, but I happened to come across one of the preview images for the Angel and Faith comic and discussion about whether or not it actually looked like London. I have to say, I wasn't feeling it - but I found it interesting trying to pin down exactly why that was. And so, with my thesis done and handed in and a yawning afternoon of mindless nothing ahead of me, I started dabbling with my ancient copy of PSP4 and altering everything that niggled at me. Outside of a mawkish curiosity, I don't have much interest in A&F as a comic, so it was more of a London fandom enterprise than anything, but I'm interested to know what people think places the scene and what doesn't, especially if it's different to what I think...

This is the actual frame:


And then I faffed with it (to a low production value):


I think the main thing that struck me, apart from the roads (and the fire hydrant and the signage) was how busy the architecture was on buildings that were clearly very small, and seemed to me like they had to be an ultra-tiny little row of terraces, squeezed into the space beside the graveyard. And then it seemed like no way could one of them be a shop on its own.

What are your thoughts? Do you even think it looks dramatically different?

Comments

[quinara]

Good to know we're on the same page! I wonder if the artist has been to France?

And that Joss' motivation for moving to a comic medium is so that he wouldn't be constrained by things such as production cost? So, er, by that logic, a drawn comic should be MORE accurate than a filmed work?

You would have thought so. But then I get the impression Joss mostly meant being able to do what he wanted with CGI, rather than actually making things global in the sense of recognisably moving beyond the US...

[next_to_normal]

But then I get the impression Joss mostly meant being able to do what he wanted with CGI, rather than actually making things global in the sense of recognisably moving beyond the US...

Well, this is true - but how many locations did we hit in S8? Scotland, England, Italy, Cleveland, New York, Germany, Japan, Tibet, and now San Francisco and London. (Did I miss any?) We never had that on the show, so part of Joss' plan clearly seems to have been to use the comics to exponentially broaden the scope of the story and make it a global conflict, whereas the show was always restricted primarily to Sunnydale.

I mean, if he didn't care about accuracy, he could've done that years ago - and the entire world would look like southern California. :)

[quinara]

I mean, if he didn't care about accuracy, he could've done that years ago - and the entire world would look like southern California. :)

It's true - although even then we did make it to England once or twice, which wasn't quite southern California, if still quite comedy...