In comics, this is often referred to as ligne claire (“clear line” in French). He hasn’t indicated lighting and shading with hatching or spotted blacks or anything like that. Or maybe he’s just a sloppy penciller and this is the best he can do.Īs you can see, Burnham has inked the piece with a dead line (a line that has no variation in its thickness). I think it keeps him more interested and engaged while inking and keeps a certain amount of energy and vitality in his finished work. These are kind of rough, but Burnham inks his own work, and he likes to do a fair amount of drawing and detail work right in the inking phase. (Oh, yeah, the original working title for the story was Xibalba, the Mayan underworld, or roughly translated, 'place of fear’.)
The last design is quite strong, but it was unanimously agreed that the first was the real winner.
In our story, the ‘astronauts’ are covered in ancient glyphs and sigils to ward off evil, and they are not exploring the depths of space, but the depths of fear itself. I'm looking to establish a clear line through the different parts, with more understanding about the characters.My last process post on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's Pax Americana went over pretty well, so let’s try that again, shall we?įor the cover to the first issue of Nameless, the new Image comic by Grant, Chris Burnham, and me, the concept was to reference the iconic scene of astronauts striding purposefully forward from The Right Stuff and to subvert that with our own spin. What's unclear to me is what this Razor House thing is and how it fits into the narrative/Nameless' psyche, and how the space adventure fits into the narrative. It also appears that Nameless got roped into all this because this Potter guy broke when contacting the alien mind, and Nameless was part of the team that tried to recreate that link. There's stuff about Universe B, and that seems to be where Xibalba comes from. So with the last issue, we know that Sophia is the veiled lady, and to be honest, that's the only thing I know with certainty. And I know that rereading Morrison's books goes a long way for understanding, but the body horror is a bit much for me to jump back into right now. I read through the comments in this thread from a month ago, and that's helped make sense of things, but I'm still looking to establish a beginning and end for this series. I love Morrison's storytelling, so I'm familiar with how much of a mindbender his work typically is (my favorite being Final Crisis), but this series really takes it to a new extreme. I just finished reading Nameless, and I need help understanding what I just read.
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