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What makes a punch powerful for you?
Certainly, Kirby had many effective techniques and I agree with the things you mentioned, Wallace. Skilled use of motion lines to mimic blurring to the point of becoming figurative was prime amongst those techniques, but the drama on the faces and in the body positions also played its part.
I think cause and effect is also an important part, preferably within the same panel. Curiously, I find it more powerful to have the punch and the punched closer together (as opposed to some of the examples where we are seeing it a moment later where the punched is thrown a distance.... though this can be fun also, such as the Gladiator/Thing page above and the Terrax/Thing punch in FF #242).
I like the punches below by Frank Miller from The Dark Knight Returns:
There are no motion lines nor sound effects, but we see the body poses and the flying blood and mud give us the impression of the power and speed involved.
The lines of expression on the face in the second planel also sell the impact.
Edited by Peter Martin on 29 August 2016 at 1:23pm
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