narwhallove:

For an issue with more characters than Logan’s got chest hairs, how does artist David Marquez get into individual minds without the clunky “Meanwhile” caption? How do we leap from a big scene featuring 9,000 gawking X-men and go super-personal …

… into the head of a wily thief who’s about to make the biggest decision of his life?

This post thinks through how Marquez creates a sense of a character’s subjectivity by paneling and composition—in Remy’s proposal scene. The 21st century has made us expert visual readers, and we pick up these cues unconsciously. My goal is to make those cues explicit, so it’s clear how much work we actually do when we read comics.

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