Two quick questions about lettering

[The Anti-crest]

I'm trying to choose how I want to present the speech. It can either be standard narrative, which is OK. Or it can be Soliloquy, which I think rocks.

Problem I'm having is would people recognize a "soliloquy" as what it is, or will they think he is talking to someone else in the book?

Would it help if I made a standard caption box but added a tail so you knew who was talking?

[Jason Arthur]

Well, generally a soliloquy is inferred by the caption box alone. Most comics use the general caption box for such.

Most letterers (and hopefully the writers that provide them the script) will use quotes to indicate a conversation between two or more characters. Often each character will have their own color for the caption boxes as well.

does that help or did I miss the point? I'm running on 3 hours sleep and starting the second half of my 14 hour work day, so...

-- J

[The Anti-crest]

I wrote the story I'm lettering. What you said helps. I'll stick with just caption boxes. I thought it might look interesting to have them actually be talking to himself rather than just narrating the story.

[cyxodus]

Would it help if I made a standard caption box but added a tail so you knew who was talking?
Then it becomes a square word balloon and looks confusing. Try having the captions boxes a color or style that would indicate that it belongs to the character. Also, clever writing will allow the reader to figure out which captions go with which character.

[The Anti-crest]

Yeah, I think its obvious by what he's saying that its the main character narrating the story. I just thought I'd have fun with it, but I'll go standard narration instead of soliloquy. thanks for the help.

[F!NCH]

Two words: thought balloons.

[cyxodus]

Two words: thought balloons.
Not a bad idea.

[Amadarwin]

that's actually pretty amusing. I've noticed thought balloons have pretty much gone by way of the dodo bird.

[cyxodus]

I like thought balloons.

[Amadarwin]

I do to. Just making an observation was all.

[cyxodus]

I took it as you liked them also.