THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SCENE IN ANY COMIC? Day 10 of 31 Days of Comics!
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- Day 10 of 31 Days of Comics brings a prompt - The Most Beautiful Scene in Any Comic - that draws some ranting from me at first, but then I move on to wrestle with the notion of beautiful comics scenes and picking an approach. Join me for yet another rambling chat that touches upon storytelling and grammar in equal part!
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This is the best intro I’ve seen this year. 😂😂😂
Sometimes you just got to let it out! 😋
Jotaro shouting his love for his father to the wind and Usagi Yojimbo wondering if tying his ears too tight is causing him to hear strangely 😊
ha, even reading that gave me a little shiver! 😁
As I start listening to this, the scene that immediately comes to mind is the last panel of Calvin and Hobbes.
Gorgeous! I found a way to show it in a previous episode of 31 Days!
My choice (and the first that came to my mind) is Rite of Spring (Swamp Thing #34 Moore/Bissette/Totleben/Wood). The coming of spring, two beings becoming one, a psychedelic trip and a transceding comic all rolled into one. Words fail me to describe this outworldish magical experience.
A close second choice would have been Calvin and Hobbes final strip
10 - most wonderful scene: Rite of Spring (Swamp Thing #34) - Moore/Bissette/Totleben/Wood
9 - comic that blew your mind: From Hell - A.Moore and E.Campbell
8 - gorgeous comic : Acme Novelty Library HC - Chris Ware
7 - comfort comic : Peanuts - Charles Schultz
6 - nonfiction comic to recommend to people who don't do nonfiction : Andre The Giant: Life and Legend - Box Brown
5 - first comic series pursued : Asterix
4 - great love story : Ethel and Ernest - Raymond Briggs
3 - great adaptation from another medium : City of Glass - David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik
2 - comic to recommend to anyone : Fred The Clown - Roger Langridge
1 - favorite comic : 2000AD
Rightfully recognised as one of the greats!
Challenge: Let's talk about The
Anghsuman: Hold up, hold up, 'The?', "THE????'
I'm just glad nobody from work watches these videos otherwise they would think I talk about definite and indefinite articles while I sleep ..
Dream’s Funeral scene from book 10 of “The Sandman -The Wake” is one that comes to mind when I think back to a beautiful scene, poignantly told by Gaiman and artfully realised by Zuilli.
That is indeed a wonderful scene, and a complex one!
That scene lives rent free in my head. "She gives you peace. She gives you meaning."
Loving your parsing of language. Comics, CZcams, prompts….all about communication…taking on the seemingly impossible task of sharing a bit of what’s inside our minds.
Thank you! I'm always irritated at how much I failed in communicating what I really wanted to, but I'm going to keep trying!
Also, I should really script these things instead, maybe that 2ill help me make more sense....
The final scene in Spider-Man Blue
Another classic, for sure!
Jason's last pages are fantastic. Even 'Why Are You Doing This?' is another absolute beauty.
My pick for this topic though: (keeping in line with your caveats) - Astro City Nearness of You. A beautiful scene, and a culmination of the entire theme of the comic. "And that makes all the difference"
That's true, I can immediately think of a couple more, once again from his shorter works!
And you're right - that Nearness last line is often drowned out by the gut punch delivered just before, but it's a gentle, bittersweet end.
Following your example (so hard to pick otherwise), The end-scene of Hellboy in B.P.RD:The devil you know. The culmination of such a great story.
Shamefully, I have not read The Devil You know. My Mignolaverse reading needs some holes to be patched up.
There's a few that I could easily choose for this one, and I'm sure that I'd give a different answer if you asked me in a few months, but my immediate thought is the final couple of pages of Ballad for Sophie. It's not a book I've heard many people talk about, but I think it's one of the best from the past few years. Without spoiling anything, the ending references perfectly events established earlier in the book and leaves you questioning whether what you're seeing is real or not.
The whole book was lovely, but it achieves its echo through that ending!
The last page of The Killing Joke by Moore, where both Batman and Joker laughs, and rain drops and lights shows police cars approaching...
Many people have the reading that Batman kills the Joker there, cutting off the laughter; how do you see it?
@@ftloc , I think Mr Moore quite intelligently has left the ending open for readers interpretation. And I know the common notion is to believe Batman finally kills Joker... But I don't want to believe that. He would have just knocked him unconscious and left the scene so that Police can capture him.. But it's not the ending or how we interpret that scene - that's important to me - it's how Moore conceived and delivered that sequence is astonishing. We never see Batman laugh - that's the unique point here - Batman laughing at Joker's joke... Because finally he gets it that he is not supposed to end this. Both of them are supposed to continue this for eternity. So, I don't believe he kills joker at the end.
It's impossible to rack my brain through every scene through every comic I've read, but you bringing up scenes that end stories reminds me of my habit of just... not putting up the book when I'm done reading it. I just leave it on the desk or table or couch I finished reading it on, or if it's a webcomic I just leave the tab open. You know, until I'm ready.
The last comic to do this for me was one I finished just the other day: Dr. Cataclysm by Mortis Ghost. The author/artist is most well known for his indie game OFF, and for good reason. It's great. Mortis Ghost has this bizarre, often disturbing sense of humor and style that tends to really hook some people, hence OFF's large cult following even 15 years later. Dr. Cataclysm is short, at only 24 issues of roughly 20 pages each. But it was released over the course of four years, and you can tell. The art style changes a lot, but only when you look back. The characters change a lot, but only some of them. The final act seems to show up almost out of nowhere, but the comic was going to end all along. By the end, I wasn't sure how to explain why I liked it so much. Maybe it's just my massive bias for Mortis Ghost. Or maybe it's because the final page showed a scene that made me reflexively utter the exact word inside the final speech bubble.
You have now piqued my curiosity about the comic as well as the game! Cheers!
@@ftloc If you ever do decide to give either of them a chance, they are both free. I know you much prefer physical comics as opposed to webcomics, but Mortis Ghost does a lot of little things to make it feel like a traditionally published comic, like throw in little fake barcodes on the back cover, or include bonus pages drawn by other artists, or even uploading it on a website that has a page turning animation. It's almost like a loving parody of the physical medium it's emulating. A neat experience.
As my love of Kate Beaton and The Order of the Stick (among others), displays, I'm not averse to reading webcomix from time to time! 😁 And you've certainly made this sounds worthwhile!
I am also a fan of short, indie games (but no expert, I'm just finding my way through) so that has definitely got my attention as well! Thanks again!
I'm lagging way behind on these now, but I figured I'll post here anyway. This is as you say a rather difficult one to answer. One scene came to my mind rather quickly though, and that is the one in Hellboy, The Storm and the Fury, where Gruagach, who has been cursed by Merlin to be unable to die and is hanging from a tree by a noose, regretting his choices and events leading up to this moment. He is then suddenly met by Morgan Le Fey who takes his hand, lifts the curse and they both move on to worlds beyond.
Somehow the fate of Gruagach always stuck with me and I still think he is one of the most underrated characters in the Hellboy saga as he's actually really quite interesting with a lot of depth. Not sure if there were more stories released based around him at some point.
For some reason I had completely missed this comment! I remember the scene you talk of and now you've made me want to reread those stories!
Gruagach appears in a number of the main Hellboy stories and minis but not in any of the spinoffs or other comics, my Mignlaverse scholar friends tell me.
I finally read Spider-Man Blue this year and that last scene of Peter in the attic immediately came to mind here. I'm sure I could find different scenes that I love equally or more, but I did send a message to a friend of mine asking if he'd read that too after closing the book. Wanting to share something like that with someone else seems like a good reason for calling it a beautiful scene.
It is indeed a terrific closer, and a popular one in these comments I see!
I didn't enjoy Ghost World as much as I thought I would, I was genuinely surprised by how much I failed to appreciate it given what I read in reviews. I pen it down to just not being able to relate to the characters at all - maybe it is because, as you said, the protagonists were too alienated for readers to empathetic towards, or maybe it's because my nerdy teenage years in Bangalore were just so different from what they seem to be going through. Or maybe I'm just growing into an old, grumpy man who's perpetually annoyed at all teenagers and their sarcasm - but I really hope it isn't that. That being said, I can see why the last page is your pick - it does capture that quiet sadness involved in inevitably growing older and hence apart from those who, at that age, you never thought would drift away.
My pick is going to be an almost polar opposite of yours - for I shall pick the "The feast of fools" scene from Arkham Asylum by Morrison/McKean. The first thought that came to my mind when I first read the book and saw that two page spread was "This is insane", not "This is beautiful" - but I think therein lies its beauty. The utter chaos that is captured in that scene - the table, the random voices, the symbols and scribbles on the right overlapping with the scene, Joker announcing 'Let the feast of fools begin' - everything screams insanity, and fills you with a feeling of genuine dread and concern for our favourite caped crusader. While insanity, violence, and chaos don't necessarily lend themselves to 'beauty', I think it's beautiful how the art can bring out such emotions and a static scene spread across two pages can make you feel like you're in a tornado of madness.
I completely empathise with your fervent hope that I don't descend the 'grumpy old man' spiral! But I also agree that the teenage lives of the Ghost World protagonists were quite alien to me (except for what some American movies or TV shows would have shown) and definitely not at all my experience.
And yes, I probably value that last page as much as I do because the story would not have that halo of wisdom, of leaving some of this alienation behind, while still carrying some with you, without that page.
And a quick question for you - would you put cliffhangers - last pages that will be picked up by a continuing story in a subsequent issue or volume - in the same grouping?
No doubt about a great scene being a great scene, just about the ideas of 'last' 😁
Well in terms of most beautiful I have to say from demon slayer when nezuko wakes up from her deep sleep after tanjiro returns from final selection and they hug ( beautiful I tell you ) but most emotional scene is from Bone in the last page where the bone cousins are on the wagon and going to Boneville.😢
Ah the pain🙈Sandman was my pick on previous video. I might’ve chosen scene from The Kindly Ones where Dream meets his sister towards the end of the book. A 5 tall-panel full spread splash where his sister asks him to take her hand. Getting goose bumps now thinking about it. Well, I cant choose that now, can I? A small bitter voice in me demands some days to be free of any previous choices. Also I had to stop the video the second you showed your choice😅I have that book waiting on my to-read-pile. For the same reason I looked at other comments with caution in case of too many spoilers. None for me so far. And I said all this to tell I’ll come back later when my inner conflict allows me to make a choice.
Yeah...spoilers are sort of inevitable, especially if anything that adjusts or manipulates your expectations from a first encounter is counted as a spoiler.
Being a spoiler averse person like that, these are compromises I'm still working through...
And speaking about time travel and previous choices, you can always edit the comment in the past where you mention The Sandman! 😁
The Sandman has some great scenes, including last pages, including the crowdpleasing end of Men of Good Fortune!
Man... You really come up with the best and most difficult topics for this challenge! I'm really happy you address the complexity of telling what actually constitutes a "scene".
As always, I think there are way too many scenes y way too many comics... but right now I'm thinking about one from the very first chapter of Makoto Yukimura's PLANETES. Yuri, one of the members of the debrie-collector's crew we follow is floating in space with Earth beneath him. While finishing a job with his colleague Hachimaki, he sees something shining in the distance. He is always hoping to find a particular thing out there, in the infinite and hostile vastness of space, an object that means everything to him, an object that was lost together with his old life... and he hopes this time it is it... Yuri ignores the command from the ship's cockpit to retreat, he ignores Hachimaki's calls. The debrie shower stikes Yuri hard. He is launched out into space without controll! Hachinaki shoots after him in a personal vehicle! Chaos, danger! Yuri closes his eyes, stretches out his hand and can feel the touch of his wife, long lost to space in an accident... When he opens his eyes again, Hachimaki has saved him and he's holding on to the small personal vehicle, but more important to Yuri, he holds a small object in his grasp. His face is full of hope, doubt, expectation and anxiety as he brings his hand closer to his helmet and open it. There it is... he's holding a small compass with the inscription "Please save Yuri" carved into the lid. Yuri closes his eyes and everything, the vehicle blasting through space, the plnaet beneath him, his partner, the calls from his team, his space suit, space itself... everything dissolves. He has peace, he can move on.
To me, that's one of the most beautiful scenes in comics. And it's the freaking start of the story!!! It tells you what to expect, it warns you that you will feel things, that you will get to know people, that you will experience all sorts of things. And all that drawn in a gorgeous and elegant style.
How wonderfully recounted! I love Plantetes, and have for a long long time.
Interestingly, it was almost half a decade between me reading the first volume and the second, because it was oop.
I'm glad I got a reprint and finally read the second half of the story, but there's something achingly lovely about that time between volumes that seems fitting for the work it is about.
Awww, man, what a scene. If I didn't choose Dr. Cataclysm's final scene, I was actually going to go with Planetes, specifically the "This is my ocean" moment. It's really stuck with me all these years.
Off the top of my head (this is subject to change, and you’re absolutely correct in having the caveats at the beginning), I guess the ending of Giant Days- it’s due a reread from me anyway. It wasn’t so much that everything works out wonderfully for Susan, Esther and Daisy, it was that they’d still be friends no matter what. Their friendship throughout the series was brilliant, funny and beautiful. Love that comic.
It is indeed a great comic!
Using your method I would say the One Piece “I want to live” moment and immediate events after that make a beautiful scene that has so much build up
One Piece has an insane amount of truly iconic moments, even for its length, but that one is one of the all time greatest. If Nami's "Help me" moment had the emotions cranked up to 10, Robin's "I want to live" moment has them cranked up to 11
10 - most beautiful scene in any comic : Nettoyage à sec - Joris Mertens
9 - comic that blew my mind : The hunting accident - Carlson & Blair
8 - gorgeous comic : Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan
7 - comfort comic : Sempé in New York - Sempé
6 - nonfiction comic to recommend to people who don't do nonfiction : Springtime in Chernobyl - Emmanuel Lepage
5 - first comic serie pursued : Blast - Manu Larcenet
4 - great love story : A sea of love - Lupano & Panaccione
3 - great adaptation from another medium : 1984 - Xavier Coste
2 - comic to recommend to anyone : The arab of the future - Riad Sattouf
1 - favorite comic : Rules of summer - Shaun Tan
Why Nettoyage à sec - Joris Mertens? for the atmosphere, for the evocative power. I am too lazy to choose a scene in particular.
Haha, but that's one word I held on to - scene! 😁
Good to see Tan on your list.
@@franciscobello1519 I love the books by Shaun Tan. and I love Miyazaki.
OK, I've thought about this one for a long time now. Essentially this prompt is impossible to answer! Nobody has read EVERY comic, and so nobody knows what THE most beautiful scene is!
So, I'm just going to give you A beautiful scene; The Last Lonely Saturday by Jordan Crane. The whole book is essentially one scene about love and grief, and I think it's particularly beautiful.
Thank you, both for that recommendation and for sharing my rancor over such a nonsensical category! 😁
Mike's support for Sam in the operation scene at the end of Motor Girl by Terry Moore is so beautiful. The way he makes her let him go in order for her to respond to her treatment is so well written.
This book, and Terry Moore in general, is reading I need to do!
The little girl standing on the ledge in All Star Superman. In second place the the little girl in Saga taking the blame for her situation and Lying Cat says lying!
That Lying Cat scene makes me tear up every single time.
That Superman scene is a bona fide, all time classic, and with good reason.
I can think of a couple of scenes from Saga that land great punches at the end, but I particularly love those BKV scenes that trade punches (or jabs) back and forth.
355 discovering Yorick smoking is one of those scenes. Lower in intensity, but rich with jokes and context.
- My favorite comic: Nausicaa of the valley of the wind by Hayao Miyazaki
- A comic to reccomend to anyone: Peanuts by Charles Schulz
- A great adaptation: 1984 by Fido Nesti
- A great love story: A taste of chlorine by Bastien Vivés
- My first comic pursued: Dampyr (various artists - italian comic series)
- Nonfiction comic: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle.
- Confort comic: Tin Tin by Hergé
- Gorgeous comic: Castle in the stars by Alex Alice
- A comic that blew my mind: V for vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- The most beautil scene: A sea of love by Wilfrid Lupano
This was a real challenge because I really do not have "the best scene"! First I thought to select some great scene from Moebius but in the end I decided to chose something completely different. I found a great scene in a recent comic "A sea of love" by Lupano with a really touching story. A great scene was when the wife waits the return of her beloved fisherman but sadly realise that he's not coming back. The all scene it's silent and you can feel her desperate waiting and her solitude while everyone doesen't even notice her.
it's funny because I don't find the scenario of "A sea of love" that great, but I love this comic. I love the style, the characters. There is something poetical, tender and genuine in this simple story. and this is a wordless comic.
I really loved that comic too, and I think the absence of any words throughout the book make it even more 'loud' in a quiet moment like that...
Oh this was tough but after many hours of thought and gnashing of teeth, I'm going with technical ability, storytelling, and skill. Batwoman by JH Williams III specifically the spash doublepage spread in issue #13, Wonder Woman and Batwoman traverse a labyrinth, your eyes are lead through the maze by the pair but also when you explore the dead ends, the twists and turns, its littered with details, murals and treasures, the remains of lost wanderers who failed to escape and slain monsters. Its so well thought out and executed, attention to detail exceptional, the colouring is beautiful, its almost Escher is its complexity but doesnt have that optical illusion, unlike George Perez's mindbending Olympus.
Batwoman #13 by JH Williams III - found in Batwoman : World’s Finest
Now I need to find an image of that spread you describe!
I also struggled with this pick. Eventually I thought, what scenes in comics are unique compared to 'normal' books. And I think that are scènes, and sometimes whole books, where nothing is said and there is just the art that tells the story. So, the wordless scenes that still tell a story in a way that adding words would destroy the story. Those are my favourites. And if I had to name any comic who does this best than I would say, The arrival by Shaun Tan, The Park bench by Chaboute or Beatrice by Joris Mertens.
The arrival by Shaun Tan ❤🧡💛
The Park bench by Chaboute 🧡💛💚
Beatrice by Joris Mertens 💛💚💙
I love wordless comics, I love these 3 artists!
The Park Bench could have multiple entries here, I thought before this video...
No arguments ever on The Arrival, of course, but now I need to check out Beatrice!
@@ftloc you have to check out Joris Mertens!!! Beatrice & Nettoyage à sec.
you can see the artwork in internet. there are plenty of images.
Oh this one is tough and possibly the one that would change most day to day than any other to date. I'm very tempted to go with the final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon as that is just so beautiful on so many levels. Go explore Bill Watterson, go explore and thank you for taking me on part of your journey... but its not quite sceney enough for me, as I define it at least.
The last page of Nikolai Dante in 2000ad... ohhh maybe ... it too invites you to explore, in this case what happens next to Nikolai with a glorious splash that throws up so much of the adventure we have shared and caps off the strip leaving the decision Dante takes up to us to give us our perfect ending... but no, again not quite sceney enough for me.
So today I go with (and spoilers if you've not read Y the Last Man) the death of Ampersand at the end of ... well Y the Last Man (in case folks don't read brackets!). Christ its so moving, one of the few comics that made me cry. It made me cry though as sad as it is, its only said as it so perfectly sums up the beauty of the relationships you can form and the sadness comes from a place of great beauty and joy ending, but so perfectly captures the love that allows that sadness to hit so hard. I mean as Yorick says Ampersand was 'One piece of sh*t pet' and cuased so much trouble. But damn they were also wonderful. So yeah beauty comes from the realisation of love and this one scene does that perfectly.
Yeah Calvin and Hobbes has some tempting picks.
Great scenes through Calvin and Hobbes, and a great scene to end it!
The ending of The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You is the most beautiful scene in a comic I have read thus far. Barbara falls asleep in a bus to Indianapolis and dreams of her dead best friend Wanda, a transgender who appears in her dream as a perfectly gorgeous woman. Death walks up to Wanda, whispers in her ear, Wanda and Death smile and wave at Barbara before she wakes. I wept for 10 minutes after I finished that book. Neil Gaiman sure knows how to pull on the heart strings!
That's a wonderful scene, and there are so many in that series!
For a final scene: in Usagi Yojimbo volume 9 the ending of the chapter "Runaways", where Usagi ponders whether Kinuko remembers him and as he turns away from the carriage we see the door open and a hand dropping a Kiku on the ground, signaling that she in fact does remember him. I don't know, there's just something that touches me about that moment.
For just a scene: in Tintin in Tibet, when Captain Haddock makes the decision, and tries to sacrifice himself in order to save Tintin.
Tintin in Tibet is often centered on Tintin's heroism, but that moment with Haddock is incredible, particularly because it has that mix of pure drama and ridiculous hilarity! 😁
OH YEAH DANIEL CLOWES simply the best and I must admit the movie staring Scarlet Johansson in a break thru roll it’s so existentially sad let’s not forget the Wilson film starring Woody Harrelson truly very damn funny CLOWES is a supreme master he’s tied for the summit of greatness with CHRIS WARE .
For Finns of my age beautiful means melancholic. Kind of sad really, but Finns just love sad🤷🏼♂️So I knew this was not going to be beautiful in any happy way. I was thinking Silver Surfer: Requiem as there it is the first chapter that is the beautiful scene not the last one. But I’ll say Locke&Key:Open The Moon ending. It’s a prequel story from The Golden Age book. As a father the whole story hurt and the solution was sadness overload=beautiful. Still when I think about that whole series this story comes to my mind first.
Like how the best sweets have a bit of salt in them, we need that dimension of melancholia to feel deep beauty, it sometimes seems...
I would go with Daniel Warren johnson's Murder Falcon. Specifically towards the end of the book. SPOILERS AHEAD
One of my favorite scenes in all of comics was when the protagonist has to use the horn of the dead to save the world. I was expecting an army of zombies to eise from the ground and start wrecking havoc. What we got instead was images or memories of everyone who has wailed and strummed their guitars,drums,flutes, etc into the void and refused to give in to despair despite knowing its meaningless. Man this was beautiful. As a metal head reading this book and seeing Dio guide our protagonist really made me tear up.
I'm avoiding spoilers because I plan to read this very soon! Thanks for the clear demarcation, and I will return to this comment when I'm done!
@ftloc definitely one of my favorite creators right now. His very kinetic artwork and heartfelt stories are something everyone should be paying attention to right now.
I remember many scenes from Kozure Ōkami... And also gore scenes from Blade of the Immortal. Those Japanese artists sure do know how to draw a scene beautifully.
Y The Last Man the final page. Don’t want to go into it in case people haven’t read it but when I saw it at the time I was like ah perfect. I’ve had faith in Brain K Vaughan ever since.
It has definitely been mentioned elsewhere in the comments! And I love that scene you talk about, and I almost wish it had been the very end, but I know whey he had to 'escape'...
Wow, I can't think of anything specific at the moment, but I think to achieve a really beautiful scene it almost always goes hand in hand with tragedy. I'd probably choose something from Berserk, because I have a serious obsession and it's an epic of tragedy. For instance the moment that Guts walks away from Griffith, I think it's a beautiful moment for Guts, he grew into a person Griffith would admire which necessitates him leaving Griffith, and it destroys Griffith because he relied so much on Guts personal strength despite his understanding of himself. And then of course it precipitates the fall of everyone. But that moment is beautiful, like poppies in perfect light right in the middle of some Flanders battle feild.
If not tragedy outright, definitely sadness or melancholy, as another commenter put it, definitely seems to play a part in beauty!
Good idea for your channel, do a comparison of movie Animal with the nearest comic in spirit … if you find this idea good help me to get rare TinTin comics 😂
Looking forward to the Top 10 Final Pages Of Comics video
You know me and timetables!
2025 sounds good 😛
I don't know what to pick because i cannot define what's beautiful 😢. But im going with google definition of beautiful " pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically" . If i go by that definition almost any of Mountain climbing scenes in The climber ( koku no hito) fits the bill. Even though its depressing, gory and bleak throughout there is something beautiful about a man who never stops being passionate for climbing even though he is isolating himself from the world and becoming more lonlier than before. Even though he is facing life and death situation every moment he never stops looking at the top. One more thing thats fascinating is im afraid of heights and the manga goes great lengths to describe the horrific details of mountain climbing it never felt triggering to me because of how much I wanted the character to never stop climbing and i wanted to see what it feels like once he reached the peak no one ever dreamed of.
That sounds wonderful, and reminds me of reading Summit of the Gods, which could have featured here quite easily as well !
Hands down, for me its in Asterios Polyp, the worldless spreads that depict the intimate life of a couple. It transcends the story, its about all relationships.
The page where he melds the two line styles to denote their connection. Pure class!
I immediately thought of that split colour /style scene as well! Asterios Polyp has more than a couple of marvelous scenes, now that I'm thinking about it!
this is a book I will reread many times!
The Most Beautiful Destruction: Destroy by Scott McCloud.
I have never read that, or even seen it available now that I think about it!
@@ftloc Destroy!! is a Scott McCloud classic that I don't think has been reprinted. 1986. 32 pages. Just one fight scene. The only words are "Destroy" repeated over and over again. It's larger than the average comic so it doesn't fit in long or short boxes well.
@@johnm.withersiv4352 Everything you need to know in one succinct paragraph 😁!
I saw a Zot/Destroy cover on something - probably a comics magazine like TCJ - that now suddenly takes on its full meaning!
@@ftloc I like McCloud's renowned Understanding Comics but he has done some interesting comics work too. I recently delved into his blog entry about interactive comics. It features theory and comics he made based on those ideas.
Is a “great scene” equivalent to a “beautiful scene?” My head starts to spin…part of me associates beauty with the most beautiful art…
Yes, beautiful does seem to learn towards visual beauty, and therefore art, and I touched upon that a bit in the episode for A Gorgeous Comic.
But the adjective beautiful when used in front of a noun will often be contextualized by the noun.
For example, a beautiful picture and a beautiful song, or even a beautiful move in dance as opposed to a beautiful move in chess.
And that's just the surface, but a 'beautiful scene' then is about scene, which is obviously visual. But also narrative, stylish (irony, metaphor), and thematic brilliance would contribute to beauty.
That's probably why I leapt from beautiful to great, although they're not the same thing, as you say.
Or trying to pinpoint the mot beautiful single panel in any comic,divorced of context, ie just a stand-alone image. Now, I think that would make for an impossible project. (Plus "beauty" means so many different things, potentially, and may have a far more robust range in some people than others. it comes down, to some extent, on how "worldly"/experienced and observant/thoughtful one may be. It's truly a fraught word. Yikes! )
Yes, while a single panel can be a scene, trying to identify the most beautiful panel ever would be even more foolhardy than trying to name the most beautiful scene!
@@ftloc FOOLHARDY indeed! ;-)
Perhaps one could talk about something like the Most Memorable Panel or PanelS on a personal level. This could combine thoughts about what leaves or has left the strongest impression and remains, even after years or decades, significant to you. And, of course this comes with only a strong personal meaning. Pointing such panels out to someone else would give others a fairly clear insight into how you perceive image and/or content.
Ultimately it may be that getting a handle on "beauty" may be too fraught a task. Proceed with courage! ;-7