Welcome back Willy! If I could give these two one advice, it would be to not underestimate him… and those who read the first chapter know why!
Thought balloons
I made quite some changes to the comic and one of the things I looked into are the speech-bubbles. What are the do’s and the don’ts and what to consider when thinking about placement for example (I will create a tutorial on that one day). One thing I learned is that the cloudy thought balloons are considered old-fashioned. Modern Comics use so-called ‘inner monologue captions’. So, in panel one I used these kind of captions showing you the thoughts inner monologue of Willy. The blue color is linked to Willy. I am happy with the effect and you will find these kind of captions – besides the usual location or time captions – throughout this Lego comic.
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Yeah… Willy knows 1 trick or 2…
I always liked the challenge text bublles offer when it comes to placing, size, it’s more complicated than it looks and the better you handle it, the better is the reading experience.
You’re doing here!
You’re right. My one rule used to be; “don’t cover any of the characters with textballoons”. But the past year i also studied all the do’s and dont’s of text-balloons… placement, shape, role in the flow of the comic. I was astounded at how much ‘rules’ there are. I’ll post a tutorial on this too someday 😆