Far Out There

DANG IT, I did it again! I got so wrapped up in drawing next week’s stuff that I didn’t give myself anywhere near enough room to get TODAY’S comic done on time. Well, it’s late, but here it is.

Also, I kind of wondered whether or not I should even have a Stilez & Tax page this time around. After all, half the point of these Christmas stories is to cameo characters who aren’t appearing in the comic otherwise, and as I made abundantly clear at the end of last month, we are gonna see a LOT of those two in the near future. But hey, it’s not like we don’t see lots of the Caligaris or Skye, and they’re still here.

And Jenna’s still cute as a button. That’s just a fact.

(Historical Notes: As a rule, I’m not allowing myself to go back and re-draw anything from these old comics, but I came REALLY close on this one.  I’ve never liked how anything in that bottom panel turned out, from the pile of lights to the attempt at a shadow effect to just the line art itself.  You can really tell I was starting to scramble to finish pages at this point, and this was the exact kind of effect I DIDN’T need to try under those circumstances.)