Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The Clan of the Poes (Page 182)

//Panel 1//
Servant:
Master Allan—wait!
Someone:
Allan!
Aunt:
Darling!
Margot:
Father! Father!
//Panel 2//
Servant:
Master Allan!
//Panel 4//
SFX:
SLAM
//Panel 5//
SFX:
BANG
BANG
Servant:
Master Allan!
Master Allan!
//Panel 6//
Servant:
Please stay right there; do you understand? Right away, right away, the doctor will be…!
//Panel 8//
Allan:
…Ah…Marybel, Marybel……Someone……
Allan:
Help me, Marybel!
//Panel 9//
Edgar:
Marybel is gone.

There was a challenge in attributing dialogue in the first panel, since the dialogue balloons were coming out of visual range where you could see who was speaking. So I had to speculate a bit. Obviously it would only be the servant who would refer to Allan as "Allan-sama" or "Master Allan." The second balloon, mentioning only "Allan", was really hard to pin down so I just let it go as "Someone." Presumably, Uncle is injured and can't speak, Margot is probably too hysterical, and it could be the Aunt, though I wasn't positive about that. The next balloon, which states, "Anata" or "Darling", is presumably the Aunt, comforting her injured husband. And obviously the shrieking cries of "Father, Father," must belong to Margot.

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