Far Out There

Sorry this page is so late. I’m gonna out of town this weekend, and I got so wrapped up in working on stuff for the next couple of days that I kinda sorta forgot about getting today’s page up. Well, at least this time I actually LIKE it.

Believe it or not, I very nearly forgot to have a Megaweapon appearance this go ’round. That in itself isn’t TOO weird, since Far Out There’s got plenty of secondary characters to keep track of, and even 25 pages isn’t quite enough for everyone. The weird thing is, the first half of this page was a perfect Megaweapon set-up even when Megaweapon wasn’t in it. Originally, the alleged punchline was Rumiko leading the kids around with candy on a string, which… isn’t very funny at all. Thankfully, it dawned on me that I needed to work Megs and his new hairdo into these comics, and Jenna asking about how to get children to behave is a WILDLY obvious place to do that!

(Oh, and on that “me being on the road for a few days” bit, there MIGHT not be a Voting Incentive Friday, and Sunday or Monday’s comics just possibly MAYBE could go up without any color if I run out of time tomorrow. Hopefully not, but we’ll see)

(Historical Notes: I think this was another inadvertent tease of Megaweapon actually having a really beautiful singing voice but never wanting to actually USE it.  Given the circumstances of his inclusion, though, I’m not sure how much of that was on purpose and how much was just a handy coincidence.  But hey, that’s true of MOST good ideas, right?)