FIREBREATHER SERIES #1
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Size: pages
Price: 2.99
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It seems like it is drawn with a pen - the lines are very thin. It doesn't seem like the ink is added after a pencil drawing, but I'm probably mistaken.
The colors are very bright and the issue is very colorful.
A lot of the drawing is bordered in similar sized panels - in each page the panels in it seem to be about the same size, but there isn't a universal panel size throughout the issue - it seems like each page has a new "universal" panel size.
It seems the panels are there to create a bigger effect when we step out of them - especially in the last page where there are four similar-sized panels and we step out of them and see the entire scene and not just bits - where we see Duncan and his mother together under a starry sky.
It seems like the color spectrum in this issue isn't wide - it seems like in most panels there are five colors maximum.
For shading streaks of black are used - pretty heavily.
It's an old method which seems to work here quite well, and it seems like the drawing hasn't got too much detail and the shading adds to the existing details so it wouldn't feel bare.
In a lot of panels there is no background: the background is one color that has nothing to do with the surroundings, or that it is the sky - which can be debated I guess - whether the sky can be considered a background or not - in this issue they seem too similar and copy-pasted and like they were generated with a heavy reliance on the computer, so I'm leaning towards the "not a background" category.
There is also (sometimes) the one color coloring of things that are closer to the reader than the rest of the things in the panel.
The coloring is pretty much the same color and shade of color for each part (for example - a shirt will most likely be in a single color and a single shade of that color) but the shades of color do change sometimes.
The plot/idea is simple - there is a kid that was born to a regular mother and a dragon father, that dragon father is the ruler of the world and he is in some compound under USA supervision. The kid is a combination of a dragon and a human-being.
His mother wants him to live a normal life and his father wants him to be more like a dragon and to inherit him, and to do that he sends robotic warriors after him to train him in combat and to make sure he is alert - it seems that the kid suffers from that type of relationship - that his father is just training him all the time and not cutting him some slack - that he isn't being fatherly.
The kid has to stay alert and battle his father's stupid robots that just get him into trouble.
He is taken to this meetings with his father by a couple of USA agents that have some weird uniform with lots of pouches and a gun holster, and there is a very weak tone which I might be imagining - that the USA's government doesn't like that that dragon is in charge, and that they are planning something - that those pleasant agents aren't so pleasant - it's mainly in the second agent's facial expressions and the first agent's (Woody) attempts at making the kid fond of him, which seems fake and suspicious.
Of course I could be imagining all of this - the second agent could be annoyed at the assignment he was given, and the first might actually like the kid.
In the beginning of the issue there is a recap (which isn't really needed) - from the book "Firebreather: Growing Pains" (which I might read sometime).
The humor of this issue and the possibilities it presents interest me enough and I will buy a TP sometime in the future - especially the angle of the government against that dragon.
But if this is just a growing-up story, I'm not sure if I want to read it - a fictional growing up story with a big dose of fantasy elements doesn't sound appealing to me.
At the end of the issue there is a short text from Phil Hester regarding this series and what is happening with it.
Art: 3 - Good
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