i am not inclined to talk shit about verbosity--one, i love Lord Dunsany's work precisely because of its more lavender-tinged tendencies, and two, i have had more than one outlet reject my work due to my own tendency toward poetic, purple prose--but there is very much an art to distilling and condensing entire paragraphs of Lord Dunsany's absolutely gorgeous prose into images
especially with a six-page limit, and only one page to fill the entirety of a fox hunt with.
how i plan to do so will probably be more clear to you, the viewer, once i rule out the full page layout (although those of us with sequential art experience can probably pick up what i'm doing from the script here alone)
but to put it simply, communicating the passage of time and intensity of speed often can be shorthanded with the density and layout of panels, and that's what i intend to do here to hopefully do the story justice.
either way, you owe it to yourself to read the original piece, which can be found in the compilation "Tales Of Wonder" on Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13821. i've put my version of the script here in the alt text, but for those of you with screen readers Project Gutenberg also has it in what should be screen-reader friendly plain text, so you can enjoy it as well.
(yes, that highlighted section on the right is the entirety of the condensed section in my script on the left. yes, the highlight extends past the limits of the screen)
another adaptation challenge: Dunsany's work often contains very little direct dialogue--i.e. direct lines from characters speaking, as opposed to lines such as "and they spoke vaguely of sundry and things".
and sometimes you have to take an axe to detail upon detail upon detail, telling the story with pictures and panels and tempo and timing instead
this page may seem like a good deal more annotated and dutifully laid out than the previous, but it's worth noting that to the side there is the one paragraph i am condensing into one page and roughly fifteen-sixteen panels
if anything i'm using the slightly more detailed page/panel layouts to help me plot out what to chop
(also worth noting that the sad sappy sucker who has to make sense of this hatchery later is me--if one were to be writing this for an artist that was anyone other than themselves, i'd recommend putting a shitton more detail into the image/panel descriptions than i am here. i am betting on tomorrow-me at least mostly being able to remember what current-day-me was on about, and recall the imagery i'm thinking of as current-day me half-asses what would be detailed panel art descriptions were i sending this to anyone else to pencil.)
lettering inked and roughly affixed--ran out of paste, so until i get more to permanently affix the lettering to the board, masking tape will stand in as a temporary adhesive.
couldn't find my preferred gluestick at the local joint so until i get a jetpens order placed it's time for Ol' Reliable, a.k.a. Grandmother Stover's craft glue.
strongly prefer it as an archival alternative to the more traditional rubber cement, although between either option and a simple non-yellowing gluestick i'd pick the stick ten times out of ten