Thursday, July 14, 2005

Krakks in the Facade


Um.

Is the identicality of the KRAKKs an homage or is there some sort of template they use for this stuff? Pardon me if I'm being naive...

Can some of you art-types explain it to me?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's simple physics. For every KRAKK there is an equal and opposite KRAKK.

Mark Fossen said...

Well ... how else would you draw a KRAKK? it draws itself, really.

Jason Langlois said...

Since so much is done with computers these days, I'd just assume that the KRAKK is a cut & paste job from some typographic template.

Chris Arndt said...

The magic probably took the reflexes away.

Amy said...

You'll note the "fwoosh" in the JLA issue is exactly the same as examples from GLs, too.

My vote says it's a standard font, especially given the emphasis on computer coloring.

It's not quite as lazy as Xeroxing an entire panel (which I've seen far too often), though.

Harvey Jerkwater said...

Obviously nobody here has ever been in a fistfight.

Should you ever deck somebody with a solid right cross, the outlines of a large word will appear in the air, usually "KRAKK." The artists are simply documenting the true nature of violence and fisticuffery.

A good uppercut usually generates an opaque "WHOOM," while a sharp jab produces a small jagged "WHAP."

You've gotta be careful, though. If you follow through too much on the cross, you can cut yourself on the edge of the last "K." That thing's dang sharp.

Scipio said...

This is why my people were pacifists; the SFX of fighting is too hard to spell.

Anonymous said...

Just say "no" to KRAKK!

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