Same with me ^.^

Oh and just wanted to say I love the "What the" expression in page 16. I know how secretive the Masters of old (and some of today) were about their martial art skills.

Indeed the only reason why we've got Yang style Taiji today is because it was stolen from the Chen family.

So yes, I think Wong realises he's in big, big trouble.

That... or Fei is so impressed by Wong's prowess (combined with his anger towards his other students) that Fei immediately makes Wong the teacher's pet. Incidentally making Wong's life even worse than it may, or may not, have been.

Busted!

Starting to think I'm totally wrong about Fei, and he really IS the asshole he appears to be.

But the next strip will tell. Either, he'll be royally pissed, or secretly glad someone's actually learned something around his dojo, and maybe rethink whether his sons should be his successors... Like the two posters before me basically already mentioned, but which I did not read before I posted this. ^_^;

The good thing about Friday's update is that you don't have to wait long till the next one :)

But the bad thing is that it gives us less time to build the buffer back up!

Fight scenes will help w/ our buffer rebuildin'. When I was doing my comic the fight scenes always took less time to do than the other pages. They took a bit longer to layout, but overall less time.

And I've been studyin' like crazy. I got a good idea about how a fight will go. So it's bein' laid out in m' noggin' as we speak/type ! :D

Because of backgrounds/lack thereof?

Sort of, yeah. That's not always the case because I don't plan on having them fight in a void.. it's just that due to other structural elements it usually takes less time overall. Especially since I'm getting relative "free reign" over how the fight goes.


Which I think is the best/only way to do something like this. I don't feel one can really "write" a fight scene even if your skills are as uber as HIKYM's intrepid writing duo. I've done a million fight scenes (or maybe a dozen, I'm no good at estimations) in my comics and trying to write them in a script constantly fails for me. I think fights are something you just gotta feel.. in your GUT.

And you can only feel it by seeing it. You gotta just start with a couple of combatants and mold their brawl together like it was a lump of violent clay. Kinda taking pieces out and adjusting things here and there.. I think it's a purely emotional/visual process. Maybe even kind of abstract. It's like a dance or a Pollock painting... only with PUNCHIN'.

Action scenes in Robo are about 50/50 between exactly what's scripted and whatever Scott thinks would look or work better than what's scripted.

It's a little different with HIKYM though since the nature of the fighting is more important. With Robo, as long as he's punching, it's cool. But you when it's a kung fu comic, a lot more of the cool factor is carried by the overall style of the scene. So, yeah, Matt will get the gist of things from John and I and within certain bounds he's free to go nuts. It keeps the experience a bit more focused somehow.

Another thing, I amazed how brave Fei's studens are to mock him like they do. Far braver that I that's for sure!!

- NG