I never read John Byrne’s run on Iron Fist, but damn if this page isn’t a great example of a splash page that’s actually depicting a whole motion sequence:
I love how the action “reads” just like how you’d read a regular sequential page with multiple panels, i.e. left-to-right, starting at the top left, and moving your eyes diagonally down and left, then left-to-right again for the next “set” of panels. Very nice stuff by Byrne.
This page is from Iron Fist #10, published by Marvel Comics, October 1976. And credit where credit’s due: I found this page on Diversions of the Groovy Kind blog, which you can also find on the linkroll on the right sidebar of this blog.
This page can also be found here:
http://www.ferretpress.com/blog/2008/09/09/way-back-machine-36/#comments
Spla-DOW.
Not sure that merits a Spla-DOW… quit trying to cause trouble, Kish.
I am ever the fomenter.