![]() ![]() So let's put it this way: Eisner's 1978 A Contract With God is widely regarded as the first modern graphic novel. It's nothing so pat and simple as a coming-of-age story it's a beautifully wrought, bittersweet and achingly real examination of two young women - one who believes herself ready for adulthood, one longing to remain a child for just a little longer.Ĭomics nerds are a nitpicky, combative lot, so whenever Will Eisner's collection of comics short stories gets called "the first graphic novel," the "um, actually"s descend like so many neck-bearded locusts to remind everyone about Rodolphe Topffer and Lynd Ward and to point out that it's not a novel, it's a collection of stories. The story, about two girls whose families have been spending summers at the same lake for years, perfectly captures the moment when everything changes - when feelings, both expressed and unexpressed, begin to color and distort a childhood friendship, when long-simmering jealousy, fear and rage finally bubble over. But relatively few comics have taken up the transition from girlhood to womanhood, and none have done so as sensitively and searchingly as This One Summer, written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. (converted word count of a flash) = 20 + 1.Comics about awkward young men struggling with adolescence are thick on the ground, which makes sense, given that the medium seems expressly suited to exploring the anxiety, self-consciousness and other ephemeral emotions that come with puberty. The new proposed formula for calculating words from visual Flashes is It seems that the NE values for determining Flash word count equivalents are not very good at estimating the length of an actual description, and it’s almost certain that a more subtle adjusted Homestuck length would be over the 1.2 million words in estimated size. I say this is a low value because there are many more rapid edits with more images in Cascade than in the “HOMESTUCK” page. Based on the estimate of words per second from the other, we get a relatively low value of 7,566 words, much larger than NE’s number. The music track Cascade is 13 minutes, 14 seconds long. notEgbert’s estimated word count of Cascade is 5,020 words. I’m not posting it here because it’s not that interesting, but I got a count of 324 words over 34 seconds. So I wrote up a description of this page that reflected each major new image, the style of that image, and the camera effects. A more thorough description of the Flash would better reflect the reader’s experience of receiving new visual info. The problem with this strategy is that it really cuts short the actually amount of information the reader gets from each illustration. My guess is that notEgbert weighed his numbers to reflect plain prose rather than a fuller description of the contents. Considering that the author thought these were enough words to poetic describe the scene, the NE estimate comes short. Unusual for a Homestuck page, the text under the Flash actually describes the content of it in decent detail. Considering that the MSPA wiki summary doesn’t even mention that the page has the first appearance of “HOMESTUCK” inside the comic, the NE estimate is better than it. This flash is 230 KB, so under notEgbert’s formula, it would be equal to 43 words. John gazes out into his neighborhood: quiet and windy.It summarizes this Flash in 20 words like this. The MSPA wiki provides brief descriptions of each Flash page of varying quality that we can use as the bare minimum estimate. ![]() I decided to use this page where John looks up at the sky in his neighbor since it will give a more conservative estimate for words per kilobyte because the animation is slow and doesn’t have many images per second. Let’s see how well these numbers work for Flashes instead of images since the relatively large sizes of Flash files means that there is more room for error and more room for improvement. (converted word count of a flash) = 20 + 0.1*(size of flash in kilobytes) (converted word count of an image) = 9 + 0.6*(the image file size in kilobytes) These are the measures used, which they got by fiddling around with the numbers until they liked what they saw. This method weighs pictures and Flashes separately using a constant rate. This number comes from readmspa, who used notEgbert’s method to come to this number. Many of you are probably familiar with adjusted word count of Homestuck being something like 1.2 million words when pictures and Flashes are calculated in. A look into adjusted Homestuck word counts ![]()
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