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Splash Panel

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In comic books, splash panels (also known as splash pages) are massive panels (the bits that contain pictures) that take up most or all of a page, or possibly even two pages. They are an important part of maintaining a comic's rhythm, and will most commonly be seen in the first pages of a comic (usually coinciding with the title page) and the last pages of the comic, usually coinciding with the cliffhanger. The specific purpose of a splash panel is to add dramatic weight to a scene, be it a shocking reveal, a character's entrance, an establishing shot of scenery or a building, a dramatic fight scene or something else entirely. When used excessively, they can be a contributing factor in Decompressed Comics.
They are also useful when a dramatic scene requires a far more impressive sense of scale than an ordinary panel could manage. For example: A character steps into a totally unexpected underground kingdom — an open area far larger than it should be. In a normal panel, this would all just look like a bunch of shrubs with a tiny speck that may or not be the character. In a splash panel, the character can be shown in enough detail for the scale to get into the reader's brain.
If the artist needs to focus on something specific in a splash panel, he may overlay smaller panels on top of or around it that enlarge and highlight specific sections, or that provide a commentary on the larger picture.
Splash panels are extremely popular in Japanese comic books (or Manga) and entire issues can consist of characters doing not very much at all on a very large canvas. Although examples of splash panels can be found in Western comics going all the way back to the 1960's, the technique did not become popular until the late 1990's, when Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch created The Authority, which drew on the Manga mindset to create a "widescreen" comic in which splash panels were used liberally to emphasise the wide-scale action. This ushered in an era of Decompressed Comics with very little plot but great big pictures that ran to the mid-2000's before dying out. Splash panels, especially two-page spreads, do not work very well when collected into trade paperbacks due to the crease that is now in the middle of the page. This can be especially disastrous if there are significant speech balloons or captions in the vicinity of the crease. (A rarer problem in collections happens when two two-page splash panels are an odd number of pages apart, due to there having been an odd number of advertising pages between them in the original comic. This can be resolved with a blank page, a new page of art, or splitting one page of art over two pages.)
If the Splash Panel is also a Silent Scenery Panel, the result it almost invariably Scenery Porn.
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The last issue of Watchmen featured several particularly dark and gory splash pages. Said pages are beautiful.
Earlier in the book there is a two-page splash panel when Adrian Veidt defends himself from an assassin. It doesn't take up the whole of both pages though, its the size of a single page and placed right on the center seam, the only panel in the book span two pages. The reason? The entire chapter's panel layouts are a palindrome and the splashpage is right in the middle, emphasizing the mirrored layouts.
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Wonder Woman 600: Each of the stories is separated by whole pages of Wonder Woman art celebrating the character by a number of artists.
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Wonder Woman (1987): The last two pages of # 174 is a large single scene of the 60 assembled heroes taking off to go fight Circe's villain group and save New York.
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In Nikolai Dante frequently uses two-page spreads to show something happening on a huge scale.
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When writing Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Karl Bollers seemed to use two-pages splashes far too often. He put FIVE PAGES of splash panels in the first part of Home— that's nearly a quarter of the twenty-two page issue!
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During Walt Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor, an Affectionate Parody of the above sequence in #365 involved Thor, transformed into a small frog, desperately trying to lift his hammer.
Simonson's Thor also included issue #380, which was told exclusively in splash panels to emphasize the epic scale of the battle with the Midgard Serpent. It worked.
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Loop: The panel of Father Time bursting in and looming over the twins takes up two pages.
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As Sluggy Freelance has gone on, Pete Abrams has used splash panels more and more frequently, such as the ending to "Oceans Unmoving," or the "chicken" panel that fans insisted be made into a t-shirt.
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Strange School: The Big Damn Kiss strip is the only panel of its update.
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Tite Kubo is awfully fond of splash pages as well.
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The Warlord (DC): Mike Grell would usually have a two-page splash panel an issue.
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An early issue of The Savage Dragon was done entirely in splash panels, in homage to the Thor example above.
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Every issue of Cable & Deadpool opens with a splash page, usually of Deadpool fighting something. In one case, an army of evil clowns.
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Used in The Beano especially in older Bash Street Kids strips especially when it used to be called When The Bell Rings.
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Attack on Titan shows Reiner Braun recalling their time with the 104th squad, with intermittent panels of a rifle being loaded. The splash panel depicts them with the rifle in their mouth, about to shoot.
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The entirety of the last issue of The Death of Superman storyline was nothing but splash pages.
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Moriarty the Patriot has many of these. One of the first in chapter one showed the Moriarty brothers emerging from the flames of the manor they set on fire and Albert declaring their names and relationship.
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In The Powerpuff Girls story "Halloween Hiding" (DC issue #67), the Gangreen Gang is hiding out from the girls at a Halloween party. It features a two-page splash of the party where the reader is entreated to locate where each member of the Gangreens are (a la Where's Waldo?).
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The second-last issue of Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. lampooned Steranko's effort and featured six consecutive splash pages that could be arranged to make one big one in a very open attempt on the authors' part to get people to buy six copies.
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Irregular Webcomic! occasionally uses giant splash panels for dramatic scenery reveals: here and here.
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The team behind the current Green Lantern series, as well as Blackest Night, really really really likes big, incredibly detailed splash pages. They also put a four page one into the end of Blackest Night, showing off the heroes that were brought back by White Power Rings.
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The Order of the Stick also makes regular use of these, often while referencing the fact naturally, as seen here.
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In Uncanny X-Men #275, Jim Lee drew a two page splash of the X-Men and Starjammers battling the Imperial Guard of the Shiar with no dialogue and just captions with each character's name.
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Mutts frequently uses all of the Sunday Strip to depict a woodland scene.
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Blip: The fight between Liz and the Vampire Hunter was rendered almost entirely in splash panels.
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MAD is best known for this with their TV/movies satires (notably, in the first issues, the splash panel would be a page long, while later on, they'd take up two pages). The first two pages typically depict a crowded scene (complete with Easter Eggs referencing other media) where all the parody characters introduce themselves and establish the premise of their series or film.
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Mikanagi Touya's Karneval has these, too.
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Blade of Toshubi has a two-page splash panel here.
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Some later Cerebus the Aardvark comics played with the idea of 2-page splash panels by putting the left half on the final page of an issue and the right half on the first page of the next.
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The Legend of Koizumi takes this to the extreme. Then goes beyond that with it's penultimate chapter witch consist entirely of one of these... spread over 26 pages.
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Girl Genius does occasional two-page splash panel twice the width of a regular page. While the two single pages are displayed full size (so the dialogue can be read) Phil and Kaja Foglio always offer an "elegant and finely-crafted link" to a smaller version of the full panel.
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Most, if not all entries from Doraemon's Long Tales have at least one (sometimes two or three) instance where a single panel takes up two pages. And it's often accompanied by lyrics of a theme song for the subsequent anime adaptation.
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Death Note tends to break them out when it's time for the serious guns. And apparently, the beginning of Volume 12 doesn't qualify.
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Kill Six Billion Demons makes extravagant use of splash panels with dimensions far greater than regular pages, allowing the reader to scroll across to take in all the detail. These pages are reserved for establishing shots of large areas (sometimes so zoomed out they basically become maps) and epic battle scenes that couldn't be contained by ordinary panel layouts.
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Wapsi Square makes use of these from time to time, such as Tina unwinding at the end of the day here. However, considering the large size of normal panels, they are seldom needed.
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Wonder Woman:
Wonder Woman (1987): The last two pages of # 174 is a large single scene of the 60 assembled heroes taking off to go fight Circe's villain group and save New York.
Wonder Woman 600: Each of the stories is separated by whole pages of Wonder Woman art celebrating the character by a number of artists.
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One Piece deserves a mention too, particularly when Oda feels the need for some Scenery Porn. He also uses them whenever Luffy defeats a major villain to make that final blow have a bigger impact.
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Four full-page panels were added to The Crab with the Golden Claws to help pad the adventure out to 62 pages. They show the Moroccan plane flying over the capsized lifeboat; our protagonists trudging through a Thirsty Desert; Haddock chasing Tintin through the streets of Bagghar; and Omar ben Salad riding a donkey through the same city as Thompson and Thomson look on.
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Empire State has a two-page splash of a southwestern American desert, and a few more of New York City upon Jimmy's arrival there.
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The dramatic fight scene toward the finale of Kaspall includes this one as page 353.
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300 in its original Comic Book form was nothing but two-page spreads. This created some difficulty when it was collected into a trade paperback, as there would have been a massive crease in the middle of every page, thus why the 300 trade is twice as wide as other graphic novels.
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One famous and much-homaged example is a Steve Ditko-drawn issue of Spider-Man - issue 33 - in which Spider-Man is trapped underneath some wreckage, waiting to drown. As he builds up the strength to lift it, the panels grow bigger and bigger, until the final full-page splash panel, in which he hoists it above his head.
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Fairy Tail has them all over the place.
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Anything by Ken Akamatsu. Anything.
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El Goonish Shive does this occasionally with the panel in question sometimes getting a colorized version in the sketchbook section. The sketchbook strips here and here are examples of colorized splash panels.
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In the 70s and early 80s, after it got the colour pages, Judge Dredd would always open with a two-page full-colour spread that gave a preview of the main story, which was told in the next four, black and white pages. This practise faded when colour became more common.
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On most Asterix books, rather than devote several pages to the climactic battle, there is instead a full-page bird's-eye view of the whole thing, often with handy charts and footnotes showing who's doing what to whom.
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In Yokoka's Quest, each chapter has a splash panel as its cover page, and there are further splash panels beyond those. These splash panels cover their entire two-page spreads note (when reading online, these spreads are shown in full at double the width of a regular page, rather than as individual pages), and often feature little or no dialogue and particularly detailed scenery. Chapter cover examples: (1) (2) (3). Non-cover examples: (1) (2) (3).
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The Dark Tower comic uses a whole lot of these, because the art style makes it incredibly difficult to make out anything in a normal-sized panel.
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Fun Home: Allison's rendition of a photograph of Roy at the beach takes up two panels and is quite detailed, presumably to emphasize her conflicting feelings about her father keeping a private photo of his underage male companion shirtless.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown has a two-page illustration during the climax depicting all the neighborhood kids attacking each other during the Snowball Fight.
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The Ultimates is rather fond of splash pages, which were taken to their logical extreme at the climax of the Grand Theft America story, where there was a fold-out splash page that was seven or eight pages wide.
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The Ratchet & Clank (2010) features many of these during its run to emphasize big action moments, although several reviews criticized the frequency of their use.
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In Thistil Mistil Kistil, the fall from the cliff's conclusion.
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A Steranko Nick Fury comic featured a 4-page splash, meaning people would have to buy two to get the full effect. It gets heavy Lampshade Hanging in the narration. The collected version makes it a foldout.
The second-last issue of Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. lampooned Steranko's effort and featured six consecutive splash pages that could be arranged to make one big one in a very open attempt on the authors' part to get people to buy six copies.
The final◊ issue◊ of Promethea can be arranged in two sixteen-page splash panels.
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Bookhunter has a two-page splash to establish the impressive size of the Oakland Public Library.
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