Flight of the Living Dead

xerexes's picture

Flight of the Living Dead

I finally got a chance to read Flight of the Living Dead by Scott Ewen which is basically a "zombies on a plane" story. (Still waiting for the Sam Jackson character to make his entry...) It's an entertaining enough concept and I'm going to stick with it further but I got to point out the major flaw in the visuals so far: which is that Ewen apparently doesn't know what the inside of an airplane looks like. Airplanes are crowded and confined and it's basically a big metal tube. Your backgrounds shouldn't look like the plane has a big conference room stashed in it somewhere.

Mea Culpa - the creator is basing the plane on the Airbus A380 which has very non-plane like rooms that can be used for gyms, or bars, or private sleeping cabins...  I'd still like to feel a better use of the plane setting in the visuals - I didn't get any sense of claustrophia or confinement to a limited space which I would think is one of the key features of the setting - there are zombies and you can't just jump out of the plane...

 

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Lore Sjöberg's picture

Re: Flight of the Living Dead

Perhaps it's based on the Airbus A380?
timtylor's picture

Re: Flight of the Living Dead

Bedrooms and bars and casinos, oh my... I'm pretty sure Lore's right, the "conference room" is a very close match to the second photo down on the A380 page, and the plane's clearly a double-decker. I'd guess Scott's using the A380 site for photoreference.
Anonymous's picture

Re: Flight of the Living Dead

Ewen wrote a few months ago:


"Flight of the Living Dead takes place on one of one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380 The AirBus A380, which has special areas on the plane that individual airlines can use to house gyms, or bars, or private sleeping cabins, or whatever they want to use it for."

http://www.serializer.net//comics/fold.php?view=archive&chapter=12401

xerexes's picture

Re: Flight of the Living Dead

Mea Culpa! I'll concede that there is a plane that has areas like that.

I still stand by the point that I didn't feel much like I was on a plane with the visual in the comic so far. I would think you would want to use the setting of the plane to build a sense of claustrophia - adding to the overall tension - in the readers. I didn't feel any of that so far...

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Xaviar Xerexes

On second thought, let's not go to Comixpedia. It is a silly place.

Xaviar Xerexes Oh yeah... this place is called ComixTalk now.
Scott E's picture

Re: Flight of the Living Dead

Fair enough. I will certainly concede that my backgrounds could be better. This is partly due to the fact that each of these pages were done super quickly (usually the weekend before they went up), and also due to the fact that finding good reference of the Airbus A380 turned out to be more difficult than I figured it would be. I'm working on the next chapter right now and spending more time working on the pages than I did the last three chapters, with my intent to make the art better. Thanks for the link.