page 29 – Downtown, Where All The Lights Are Bright…
Original note – Mar 21, 2008
Seriously, guys, I LOVE drawing busy skyline stuff like this. That’s kind of funny because, to be honest, I’m not that good at technical drawing at all. Straight lines are kinda hard.
Oh, and anyone who can correctly identify all three of the graffiti marks on the Candied Brains machine gets to call themselves awesome. That, and they win $3,596,745.67 Confederate Dollars.
(historical note: nobody ever did, so my Southern dollars remain safe)
(NEW Historical Note: This is actually a bit of a milestone for the comic. It’s the first page that I randomly added to the line-up without any plan, just because I wanted to make up for something else. In this case, I was disappointed by the previous scifi cityscapes and wanted a page that could really showcase the details. There’s several lessons about giving pages room to breathe that I did NOT learn here.)
Gotta love it: soylent pocky, and candied brains, and slurm.
Obligatory nitpick on the author comments: Like most folks in modern culture, you’ve fallen for the incorrect Hollyweird trope that “Confederate money is worthless” – Old Western movies frequently depicted someone searching for and eventually finding a treasure trove of cash only to be disappointed that it was Confederate cash and therefore worthless. This was correct – in the 1800s – there was an enormous amount of it around still and it was essentially worthless. Not even good quality as toilet paper. Then, misinformed movie makers started making movies where a modern-day person finds a treasure trove of Confederate cash, declares it worthless, and throws it away, burns it, or whatever in disappointment. This is nonsense – it’s 150 years later and 99.999%+ of confederate cash was destroyed years ago because it really was worthless at the time, but now it is a historic collectible. Specific worth would spend on which notes you had and their condition, of course, but the sealed treasure troves shown in the movies would be in mint condition – the stupid movie character is burning/throwing away what is likely worth 10s or 100s of thousands of modern dollars in most cases!!! Similarly, if you really had $3.5 mil in confederate notes (your prize money mentioned in the author comment), that would likely be worth 10s or 100s of thousands, depending on which notes and condition. So, I’ll be working hard to figure out what those graffiti squiggles mean, what with the $100,000+ prize in antique collectibles you’re offering! Author notes are surely legally binding in court, right? 😉