Jason Badower/The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 1
Jason Badower shares his original art and comments about his work on The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 1.
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Normally, Jason does 3-4 pages of layout a day. However, for The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 1, he "smashed out all 11 pages" during the 100-minute duration of Dawn of the Dead.
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Jason used the opening logo of Heroes to create the Earth in the first panel.
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NBC told Jason that the satellite looked "flat and cartoony", which he took as great art direction and as a compliment about his coloring.
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He is "horrified" he sent this version through. He feels he was lazy on panel 3 because it was just a cut, paste, and blow up of panel 2. Though he wasn't asked to redraw it, he did anyway. "My artistic conscience just couldn't live with signing off on this horror."
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Jason feels this story is very significant in the Heroes universe. "If I was going to be remembered for any contribution to the Heroes universe, it would be this."
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In the script, Aron Coleite asked for a recurring image of Hana. This is the image that Jason used throughout the story.
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"I do incredibly scratchy layouts. I like to discover things as I go on. If you figure everything out at this stage, drawing becomes more of a photocopying/blowing up exercise than actual creativity."
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Originally, panel 3 was written to have a closeup of the two incisions on Hana's neck; the dialog read: "Have we all forgotten what you've done?" Jason prefers this original dialog, and thinks it makes more sense for her to show the marks on her neck. He doesn't know why Aron changed the text to "I'm getting a little sick of following your orders. I mean, how can we trust your endgame?"
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Jason feels that panel 2 has one of two of his weakest likenesses of Hana. "I beg forgiveness that I was still trying to figure out what I was doing."
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"My stomach fell out when I saw Ted clean shaven. They didn't tell me about that! I was really disappointed. Who the hell lets someone shave in a maximum security Guanatanamo bay-like cell? Wtf?!!"
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Frank Mastromauro of Aspen Comics noted that this story would be easy to draw. Jason feels that his layouts confirm that notion.
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Jason held an informal dress design contest on his blog and 9thwonders.com for the dress Hana would wear to the nightclub.
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Jason chose this design by Vanessa as the winning dress.
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Runner-up entries were used to dress the other women in the club: the woman with her one arm up, the woman to Hana's right, the black woman on Hana's left, the woman who is turned away, and the blond with both arms up. This neck strap design is also featured.
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Notes about Jason's drawings are taken from his weblog.