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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 25, 2012 15:40:29 GMT -5
Discuss any iotas, minor details, major details, or noteworthy observations about any of Seth's illustrations in WCTBATH. Note many of these can be found throughout this thread.
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Post by Dante on Oct 25, 2012 15:53:07 GMT -5
Although Ink Inc. was made into a very big deal in the apprentice attachés, its sole mention in the book is in the illustration for Chapter Seven. In fact, many of the chapter illustrations expand a little on the text - Chapter Five provides an alternative reason for as well as explicit confirmation of Stew's having broken the streetlamp, while there's a tiny figure - Hangfire? - visible in the distance in Chapter Twelve.
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Post by B. on Oct 25, 2012 16:27:44 GMT -5
Some observations, unconnected and largely insignificant:
There is a tiny scrap of paper in the full page illustration at the beginning. It's small and not very noticeable, but it appears to have been put quite deliberately in there.
In the chapter two illustration there is a barrel of ink spilled at the bottom right. In the background there is also another car on the road- although we're told cars travelling along that road are scare. Who is inside?
There's a little octopus symbol on the machinery in the full page illustration in chapter three.
Again more octopi in the chapter four illustration- there's one on the vase near Prosper Lost and another statue of one beside the arm chair.
As mentioned before, the portrait of Moxie's mother is absent in the chapter six illustration. The books look similar to the books appearing in the 804.1 snicketmail image.
We can see a tiny drawing of Ellington's cottage in the full page chapter six picture. I appreciate the attention to detail.
There's a bobble headed Bombinating Beast on the dashboard of the taxi in the picture for chapter eleven, which again emphasises Stain'd's fixation on the Bombinating Beast. Perhaps some kind of tourist industry based around it would save the town?
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2012 2:29:27 GMT -5
There is a tiny scrap of paper in the full page illustration at the beginning. It's small and not very noticeable, but it appears to have been put quite deliberately in there. I think it's just a space-filler. I'm pretty sure that's our heroes' roadster. I suspect that the huge number of Bombinating Beast gimmicks in the lighthouse indicates that there was an attempt at a Beast-based tourist industry, and that like everything else about the town it collapsed.
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Post by Q.R.V. on Oct 26, 2012 11:12:02 GMT -5
There is a tiny scrap of paper in the full page illustration at the beginning. It's small and not very noticeable, but it appears to have been put quite deliberately in there. I think it's just a space-filler. The scrap of paper is mentioned in the activity book from Handler's tour, although since this is promotional material it is debatable whether Seth drew the scrap because Handler told him to (in which case it's meaningful), or Handler picked promising details from Seth's illustration to comment on after the fact (in which case it's probably not meaningful).
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2012 11:16:42 GMT -5
That's also to make the assumption that Handler wrote the pamphlet, for that matter.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 13, 2012 8:56:05 GMT -5
I think the pamphlet has very stark characteristics of Snicket's writing. And if it's indeed written by Handler, then I think we have ignored some quite big information contained in that activity book: "the scrap of paper should and/or shouldn't have been dropped;" the "man" "on the balcony, third from the right," "whose last name isn't Snicket," is "suspicious;" "trapped behind the brick wall" are "three children held prisoner;" "in the briefcase of the man midway up the staircase" is a copy of the "children's book" "The Littlest Elf". You can see a clearer version of the activity sheet here. And even if the pamphlet, which I think was released before WCTBATH's official release, wasn't written by Handler, it does contain information that wasn't revealed before the book's release, namely that the girl in the picture has the last name Snicket (Sorry I'm so late to comment on this thread, I just discovered it as I usually just watch the "New Posts.")
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