Hi, this is Jason DeAngelis, writer and editor of No Man's Land.
First off, I'd like thank everybody for joining our ship! Welcome aboard!
Sai Rong, you've got a great eye, and made some excellent comments! Actually, you're right! The intention was to make the first panel on page 6 (after the spread) if not humorous, then at least somewhat ironic. As you pointed out, No Man makes a big dramatic pose in the splash page, and then the next thing we see is a little old granny pointing a gun at him. So, it is supposed to be a bit anticlimatic.
What happened was that Jennyson originally drew panel 1 on page 6 so that it stretched across the top of the page, so the irony was more obvious then. However, there was no panel with No Man's reaction shot. It went straight to the next panel with the granny. I felt that we needed to see No Man's reaction to justify granny's dialogue, so I asked Jen to draw it in. He squeezed it in up top and cut off some of panel 1. The trade-off was that it seems we lost some of the irony that we were shooting for in panel 1. Good catch, Sai Rong!
Anyway, these are just the first few pages, so please bear with us. In the beginning, we were still getting our little feetsies wet. I guarantee you that as the pages advance, the art (and the story, I hope!) get better and better.
Jen is like a Super Saiyajin -- he keeps on getting stronger and stronger. There's no telling how far he'll go. (Getting new artwork from him is like Christmas everyday!)
Anyway, thanks for the helpful and encouraging comments!
Ar!
-Jason[/list]