- by Chuck Dixon
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There's a little device that
doesn't get a lot of attention in comics but its crucial. The
page-turn panel.
It's the panel at the end of
each page. And it's very important 'cause it's the one that should
make you want to TURN the page to see what happens next. It can
be the penultimate moment of drama at the nexus of a major subplot
that you need to flip over to see the resolution. Or it can be
as cheap a device as the cast turning to an off panel character
and saying, "YOU?!" Then you turn the page and find
out it's only the kindly old lady from next door stopped by to
borrow a saucer of milk for the kiddies. But it "made you
look!" So both work.
The page turn can also be a fake.
The last panel on the page can show some shadowy monstrous figure
spying from the darkness on one of our cast members, seemingly
ready to pounce and tear our beloved icon to bloody ribbons.
Then the reader turns the page only to find that we've cut to
another scene leaving them wondering what happened next in the
previous one. That kind of page turn serves to pull them PAST
the next page and keep the tension at a simmer in the story.
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I've ever seen was when I was a kid. Lee and Kirby were doing
one of their "Tales of Asgard" back-ups in JOURNEY
INTO MYSTERY. Thor's in the land of trolls and just kinda strolling
along with Uru in hand. But no trolls. He's wary. He's ready
for 'em. But there's not a one of the ugly, gatemouthed critters
about. Then...in the last panel of the page, we see a wicked,
long fingered, pinkish hand reach out from some steaming crater
and grab the Thunder God by the ankle! As a young sprout I actually
jumped in my chair.
THAT'S a page turn!
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