When I first read those three words in Anthony’s script, I honestly had to go outside for a walk.
You see, in our graphic novel SHOOTING WAR, mounting tensions between American special forces and the unified jihadist group Sword of Mohammed slowly boil towards their inevitable final confrontation. We’d begun the story online at SMITHmag.net that summer, and I’d been receiving (quite happily) Anthony’s scripts in screenplay format; this means that actions are described as being in-motion as in cinema, rather than being broken up into panels, which are slices of time that represent the story’s movement on the page. I’ve got a background in film/screenwriting myself, and I really get off on having the creative latitude to structure the story beats and emotional moments as I see them.
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