I was all ready to reveal the manga version of Tally this week, and then realized that I didn’t have the final versions of the right pages. Oops. Then there was a bit of miscommunication, but now at last I have them!
So we are delaying Fan Art Friday (often known as Fan Art Sunday) for the Tally character reveal.
Remember that Shay’s Story (AKA “The Uglies Manga”) is all from Shay’s POV, and therefore starts about six months before the events of Uglies, back when Shay and Zane are pals. So Tally doesn’t enter until Zane and Shay have planned to run away and then “chickened out.” (That’s what they told Tally in Pretties, but it’s more complicated than that in reality.)
But when Tally appears, we are fully into the same events as Uglies, so some of the scenes below will be familiar. It’s kind of interesting, duplicating some Uglies scenes almost exactly, but in an entirely new context and from a different point of view.
Of course, there are some times when Devin and I decided to skip over a lot of the scenes in Uglies, using the wonder of montage! You may recognize these flashes from the book, when Tally and Shay are getting to be friends.
Here’s a close-up of a familiar scene in Uglies that gets swept past in this montage:
This scene is also directly from the book, but here only lasts one frame. It’s quite illuminating to see Steven’s vision of it:
What’s interesting is, when you read the book, Tally is the protagonist and is therefore the center of attention in this scene. But in the version above, you can see that Shay is the featured character. She’s literally foregrounded.
And finally, here’s an argument between Tally and Shay at a certain key point in the story:
Click here for a bigger version of this one.
The dialog is directly from the book, but as you can see, Tally has her back to us and we see Shay’s expression.
I didn’t realize any of this (at least, the visual aspect of it) until I started to look for shots of Tally, and realized that there were very few of her. Most of the time, she’s in the background and Shay’s doing something. Because the comic is all about Shay.
But there is a great shot of Tally from near the end of the book, when they’re in the Smoke. So here’s frizzy-haired, not very confident, under-suspicion Tally:
Hope you like her.
Not how I pictured Tally at all, but still awesome! I really love the whole concept of the manga; Shay deserves some love after so long in Tallly’s shadow
@loki: yeah, I only really like Shay Without Brain Damage.
She should have straight hair not curly. >___> But thats ok she still looks cool.
I thought her nick-name was squint, but she has really big eyes….
Okay, it’s Sunday. Where’s FAF?
Fan-Art Monday then? I think it should be called Fan-Art-Whatever-Day. I can wait though. 🙂
@54 yeah that’s true… But manga makes everyone’s eyes big I guess
The only reason I’m commenting here is to protest the delay of FAF! BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HEREBY PROTEST WITH MY PICKET FENCES!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ronnie……………………..
casually pushes her bangs back with a headband and throws away her glasses
I AM TALLY IT IS ME
But, in all seriousness, we actually do look very alike! And if her coloring stays true to the old covers, then I’d be able to even do an easy cosplay!! Maybe soon, maaaaaybeeee soooon…
My hair is now in Shay pigtails! 🙂
@ Zane-la I know it’s just a screen name but, getting a little judgementle on Tally huh? No offense, just striked me as odd. Does anyone know who the guy on the cover of Pretties is? I think it’s Zane but frankly, he isn’t very pretty on that…
Please tell me there’s pictures of Dr Cable in this. It will make my life. And then please do a Dr Cable version of this. It will doubly make my life.
Apart from that, the art’s really good. Shay is like I had imagined.
I LOVE IT! You should totally make a movie out of the uglys series! It would probably be the movie of all times! 😀
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yup, not at all, I imagined Tally to be. I thought Tally looked, well, slightly more different & has a little more squashed nose (come on, she described her nose that way, how else am I suppose to imagine it?)
anyhow, I’m not saying that she looks bad…just not how I imagined it to be. I’m so excited for this graphic novel~~!!
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i spent literally five minutes on this but i do feel that there’s a resemblance here
now to put on my school uniform and make a hoverboard
I love how Tally looks in this! She is exactly as I imagined her. I LOVE TALLY!
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