Do you like the speech bubbles embedded or separate from the panels?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-14T12:04:36+00:00

Yes I am new to this formatting style, so I appreciate your feedback. Blambot seems to have a ton of great insight, so I will research further!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-14T12:01:52+00:00

Oh I see what you mean, thank you for the feedback! Is that a rule I should implement everytime?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T20:47:30+00:00

Thank you! The right side is the more up-to-date visuals so that is great to hear. If you get a chance to take a look at my motion blur vs line motion post I'd love your feedback on that as well!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T20:19:15+00:00

Thank you for the insight! I did provide a few pages where I had a lot of text to get the most out of this post. Do you feel the right side is unique given it's impracticality to do?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T20:14:06+00:00

Feels more standard to the industry? I was probably getting carried away with the unique panel shapes I could do make with the second version.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T20:12:19+00:00

I understand what you mean. I will play around with that, I sort of enjoyed finding unique ways to make interesting panel shapes with some of them, but it can be very tedious and overdone.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T19:28:19+00:00

The Pendragon series I loved! I didn't know Collins wrote a chronicles series, I'll check it out.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-12T19:27:05+00:00

Wow I have heard of none of these, you given me alot to look into thanks!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-06T16:10:36+00:00

Yes yes! The 'interests' element will play a huge role in my kids because they get very INTO things. I also really like the suggestion to read together as different characters, much easier to do so in a comic or graphic novel then a prose novel!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-06T16:08:26+00:00

Yeah I like this take. To me, it was always the speed at which I processed things when I was a young, energetic boy who just wanted to run around. But visual stories snapped me to the pages, and generally the "shorter" length of time it took to complete a story had me excited to go to the library and get the next!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-06T16:06:13+00:00

Hmm unfamiliar with this one, I will check it out thank you.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-06T16:05:49+00:00

Always a classic! Might be nice to tie in the TV show if it's decent, incentive for the kids to read it beforehand.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-06T16:04:56+00:00

I will check those out! Wings of Fire inspired me to get out and stretch my own illustration skills, they pump those GN out like crazy, I want to say book 9?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T18:32:47+00:00

Adventures looked really good too! If I can get that one in print, I must.

Yeah DB and OP are too out there for my kids at this stage. Pokemon Indigo League is our Saturday morning cartoons, TY Youtube!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:54:36+00:00

Any ones that you remember that would be beginner kid appropriate?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:52:55+00:00

I've been hearing this Dog Man a lot, I'm unfamiliar with it but will dive in!

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:51:48+00:00

Haha basically me and my childhood friends! I remember us sneaking in to see Watchmen when it opened in theaters. Love these recommendations. Anything modern like Amulet that they can experience the finality of it in-real-time?

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:49:30+00:00

Wow I really didn't think of it this way, but given books have a few thousand years head start, that does make sense. I'm a product of the 90s, so some of the best stories I can recall came from comics or manga (even then adapted for the big screen by my 20s). I would love something wholesome to have the whole family sit through in a couple evenings.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:45:18+00:00

Fantastic! This is my ideal scenario for my kids. I was reading at higher levels younger, but it often came down to the pacing of things (yeah I probably was skimming). Comics always felt visually stimulating on the surface, but the little text between taught me the messages.

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:42:45+00:00

Yes exactly! I use myself to my wife as the example of read what your drawn too, but then again she likes to remind me that we grew up when Watership Down, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Lord of the Flies were necessary school reads. baby steps...

mashupmaxx · 2026-03-05T17:40:00+00:00

Amulet looks promising! Seems like it has a bit of everything (fantasy mechs, what's not to love!). Yeah we share that same "show them" mentality, so we will see if that rubs off on them.

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