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| Ninjak #4 Cover A by Fernando Dagnino |
In Ninjak #4, veteran Dave Sharpe takes over the lettering duties. In the panel below, the long, graceful arrow that arcs out and down tells us that even though we're looking at Syphon, that's not who's speaking.
Sadly, the poor fellow has trouble getting his words out once Syphon turns her mental powers upon him. As he struggles to respond, dialogue balloons also arc around him, and break panel boundaries.
If you follow the link to the preview pages at the bottom of this post, you'll notice that the balloons break out of artist Javier Pulido's panel layout for that page.
With their new psiot abilities, Syphon and her brother don't need to talk to communicate. Dave discloses her psychic dialogue with a blue puffy cloud.
Meanwhile, Dave reveals her brother's dialogue as an off-white puffy cloud. Is it just me, or do the four diagonal arrows of the dialogue balloon, when atop the sun, suggest a flower or a cookie?
In either case, the way he lays their dialogue balloons over the sun reminds us that the brother and sister run the growing intelligence-terrorism group Daylight.
In the last panel, Dave Sharpe differentiates the dialogue Ninjak listens in on with spikes jetting diagonally from the dialogue balloon. The letters of the words fade, or get rubbed out, by some sort of interference.
The arrow traveling
from the balloon to Ninjak emphasizes this interruption. First it's
arcing toward him, then it veers away, then it shoots back. The
lightning bolt it forms reminds us that it is an electronic
communication.
Great work, Dave Sharpe. Your lettering enhances the beauty and meaning of Ninjak #4!
Dragon Dave
P.S. To review the preview pages the good folks at Valiant Comics shared with us last month, click the link below:
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