"Little John... Little John..."

In the newspaper office, just as Little John was attracted by the story on the manuscript and was concentrating on it, Old John's voice suddenly came from behind.

Turning around, he saw Old John in front of the typesetting machine looking at him with an unkind expression.

"If you have time to read the comic manuscript of "Superman" there, please go outside and take more news materials for me."

With Old John staring at him, Little John could no longer stay in the newspaper office and read comics. He reluctantly took his eyes back from the drawings, took the camera on the table, and left the newspaper office three times while turning around.

Watching Little John leave, Old John adjusted the brass reading glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose, shook his head and returned his attention to the typesetting work in hand.

After "The Courier" was renamed "The Courier Daily", John Sr.'s workload of typesetting increased a lot.

For this reason, Colin once planned to recruit another typesetting worker to share the pressure of Old John.

Old John rejected the proposal without hesitation.

After getting a new typesetting worker, my job at the newspaper will be immediately affected.

In addition, the number of typesetting machines is also a problem. Two workers cannot take turns using one machine. And once the machine is purchased, it is another expense.

Since we can't change the typesetting workers, we can only change the newspaper itself.

The newspapers published during this period were still relatively crowded in design. Even the front-page news often squeezed a large amount of text into a small space, giving people a gray and boring feeling.

When the Courier was revising its edition, Colin deliberately changed the layout design of the Courier Daily in consideration of typography issues. He not only relaxed the number of news columns and increased the font size, but also interspersed more news with the news.

Use unique photos and pictures, flexibly use multi-column titles, and layout combinations, rather than simply limiting news to a specific layout on a certain page.

This approach undoubtedly greatly improves the readability of the news, and is also closer to the news design that Colin is familiar with.

The unique layout design of "The Courier Daily" has also successfully attracted the attention of readers. In the near future, the sales growth trend has been obvious, and it has even vaguely approached the "World Journal".

It seems that "The Courier Daily", "World Journal" or other newspapers are aware of the impact of layout design on reader appeal, and have begun to try to adopt new layout designs.

For example, a large part of the layout of the latest issue of "World Journal" is "referenced" to the layout content of Colin's "The Courier Daily".

If you block out the name of the newspaper and just look at the layout of the news reports, you might even mistakenly think that this is a newspaper published by The Courier Daily.

Unfortunately, news layout design cannot be patented.

Otherwise, the World Journal's approach, which is called "reference" but is actually "plagiarism," would be enough to make it suffer.

…

"Change the episode?"

cbs, new york radio station.

Inside the dubbing studio for the radio drama "The Adventures of Superman."

The Mercury Theater members, headed by Orson Welles, learned from Colin that the script was to be changed, and couldn't help but express surprise.

Currently, the eight-episode script "My Girl" they are responsible for dubbing was specially left behind by Colin before leaving for Los Angeles. It mainly tells the story of Clark's childhood girlfriend Lana traveling to Metropolis to meet Clark. This is an early story of Superman.

The story, also in this episode, depicts the connection between Clark as Superman and Lois.

At that time, the fledgling Superman rescued a crashed plane during the flight, and Lois was a passenger on that plane, so the first report about Superman in the Courier Daily was born.

The plot of the eighth episode of the radio drama will describe the relationship between Clark and his first girlfriend Lana, and his subsequent relationship with Lois. Of course, the appearance of Luther is also interspersed in the plot, making the entire radio drama warm and cozy.

At the same time, there are also exciting and exciting battle scenes.

Because the entire series is too long, Orson Welles deliberately divided the story into two episodes. Mercury Theater has currently completed the dubbing of the first ten minutes of the first episode.

Colin's sudden appearance and request to change the series undoubtedly disrupted their work arrangements.

"Feel sorry."

Colin also knew that his approach was a bit overwhelming.

However, considering the current tense situation, a daily radio series like "My Girl" is tantamount to his acquisition of power. Therefore, Colin has no choice but to work on Orson Weir as a screenwriter.

Si made the request, and the reason was naturally the first anniversary reason mentioned to Old John and others in the newspaper office.

As the screenwriter of "The Adventures of Superman" and the creator of "Superman", Colin himself has great dominance in radio dramas.

Therefore, after listening to the reasons he gave, even though he was a little dissatisfied, Orson Welles accepted the request to change the series.

He reached out and took over the new script created by the other party. The first thing that caught Orson Welles's attention was the name of the new script - "Solar Energy".

Different from the simple and clear title of the previous play, the title of the new script is somewhat vague.

However, when Orson Welles opened the script and saw the description, he instantly understood the meaning of this episode.

…

Early the next morning, readers of the Courier Daily saw General Zuo De's appearance in the newspaper.

The appearance of General Zuo De gave readers a great shock. This Kryptonian military commander was extremely oppressive from the moment he appeared.

In order to show the powerful characteristics of General Zuo De, Colin deliberately made some changes in the perspective of the comics, depicting the villain image of General Zuo De from a upward perspective, which always leaves readers who see this scene with a sense of indifference.

The feeling of oppression. And this feeling of oppression completely erupted with the arrival of General Zuo De in the metropolis.

Those who came to Metropolis with General Zod were also his subordinates who were exiled to the Phantom Zone. They were also criminals of the Kryptonian military court.

As soon as they appeared on the scene, these people showed powerful strength comparable to Superman.

At the same time, the comics also use the words of General Zuo De to describe in more detail why Superman is so powerful.

Fiora: "I feel a lot stronger?"

Following Fiora's description, the female adjutant under General Zod easily lifted the car on the side and threw it away.

Then, she took another deep breath and sprayed out superhumanly cold ice from her mouth.

General Zuo De: "It's the sun. The sun here is different from Krypton."

Facing the doubts of the female adjutant Fiora, General Zod looked up at the yellow sun suspended above the earth, and revealed from his description the difference between Krypton's sun and the earth's sun.

General Zuo De: "The sun of Krypton is red, but the sun of the planet in front of us is yellow. Different living environments have led to the gap in our strength. The sun of this planet is continuously providing us with strength, allowing us to

Become stronger."

As General Zuo De finished speaking, a red light like Superman appeared in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the powerful heat vision emitted from his eyes instantly penetrated a building.

General Zuo De: "With these powers, we can transform this planet into a brand new Krypton!"

…

The powerful strength displayed by General Zuo De and others was not weaker than Superman, which immediately aroused the concern of former readers of "The Daily Courier".

Feeling uneasy about Superman's situation, they turned to another page of the newspaper, and the story turned to Superman.

After receiving a call from his adoptive father Jonathan, Clark returned to the countryside where he grew up. In the basement of the farm, he saw the spacecraft sending the signal.

At the same time, he also saw the message left by his biological father, Jor-El, in the spaceship.

It turns out that when Krypton was destroyed, in order to preserve the future fire and hope for the planet, Jor-El deliberately placed the central book that records the hope for the development of Krypton society in the spaceship Clark was riding. At the same time,

The message revealed what happened in the last moments of Krypton, including General Zod's rebellion, and Clark's birth being different from that of most Kryptonians.

It turns out that the highly developed Krypton had given up on natural pregnancy hundreds of years ago and chose to use the central book for reproduction. It was precisely because of this that the Kryptonians determined their identity from the very beginning, and General Zuo De was born.

He was responsible for defending Krypton from the beginning, and Jor-El was a scientist.

But Clark is different. He is the only child born naturally from Krypton on this planet for hundreds of years.

Jor-El revealed in the message that Clark is different and has the possibility of being able to freely choose his own future.

This plot also gave readers who read comics in front of newspapers a hint, that is, Superman is a unique existence, even as a Kryptonian, he is also unique.

Giving readers an advantage is a common creative method in comics and comics.

Because readers who watch the work often put themselves into the identity of the protagonist, the existence of superiority is necessary. Once this uniqueness is lost, readers will often feel dissatisfied and give up the work.

The existence of the villain is to enhance the value and specialness of the protagonist, not to suppress the protagonist.

After giving readers a piece of reassurance, the next plot begins to enter the fierce battle between Clark and General Zod.

By locating the spaceship, Fiora, as the adjutant, first came to the farm and started a fierce battle with Clark, who transformed into Superman.

In order to show the intensity of the battle in the comic, Colin specifically focused on the destruction of the surrounding scenes between the two, including the smashed farm, fallen trees, and the craters all over the ground. The design of this comic section

It was obviously a very novel design during this period.

Although I had fought with Brainiac before, there was still a clear difference between the feeling in the universe and the battle that took place on Earth.

Especially when the comic freezes the scene where Fiora hits Clark's body, forming a huge depression in the ground, and appears in the "Courier Daily" serialization, readers who saw this scene subconsciously held their breath.

This kind of battle between pure strength and strength made them fascinated. At the same time, they couldn't help but feel a little uneasy for Superman who was one of the fighting parties.

Because throughout the entire battle, it was obvious that the Superman portrayed by Colin was at a disadvantage.

Not only because he wants to protect his adoptive parents on the farm, but the Kryptonian female adjutant Fiora also seems to have more powerful fighting skills than Superman.

Regarding this point, Colin introduced it in text in the blank space next to the comic.

As the female adjutant of Krypton, Fiora has strong fighting qualities. She was born to fight. Therefore, it is natural that Superman cannot defeat Fiora, because Superman has not received any training since he was a child.

combat training.
To be continued...