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"A Sound of Thunder"
12 pgs. Appeared first time
in
Ray Bradbury Comics #1 (1993).
Reprinted
in
Ray Bradbury Chronicles #4,
in The
Best of Ray Bradbury [TP], and
in The
Best Time Travel Stories of All Time [TP] (2003).
Story: Ray Bradbury. Adapt./Art/Color: Richard Corben
(signed as "Art © 1992 Rich Corben").
Lettered by George Roberts.
ITA:
as "A Sound of
Thunder [ITA]" in The
Best Of Ray Bradbury [ITA] (2004).
SPA: as "El sonido de
un trueno" in Cimoc
especial #12.
Style: Full color. Genre: SF. Time
Span: Future. Past. Nudity: None.
Keywords: Time Safari. Hunting. Dinosaur. Mistake. Leathal.
Story Origin: Edgar Allan Poe short story, "A
Sound of Thund".
Synopsis: Hunters travel in time into prehistory. They
have got a safari for dinosaurs, but somebody is after butterflies.
Comment: Ray Bradbury's effective story gets two version
in this comic book, Corben's and An E.C. Classic, Al Williamson's.
Both stories are overloaded by texts. Corben's art is moderate,
but there's one interesting experimental theme he uses:
extranarrow frames side by side to tighten tension. He uses three
different variation of it in one comic and they all works brilliantly.
Cf. "The
Light at the End of the Tunnel".
Extra: Mr. Corben draw this story originally in 10 pages. To extend
it 2 extra pages and a different page layouts was mostly needed for coloring,
though the longer version is not necessarily the better version. Pages
are more harmonic (as 12 pages), but some separate frames were better positioned
in shorter version. And because of coloring and high details story would
work better on larger size than just comic book.
Copyright © 2000 Heart-Attack-Series,
Ink!,
Created: April 22, 2000. Modified:
June 27, 2008.
