Page 232 – The Fine Art of Running Into the Wall
Don’t you just HATE it when you totally miss a doorway because your improvised robot costume was so hard to see out of? (and failed to provide adequate room for your massive pigtails?)
I hope the inking on this page isn’t TOO sloppy this time. Due to some spectacularly poor time management, I had to pound out this page at 10 AM Sunday morning… after having stayed up ’till 6 AM watching the whole first season of Higurashi in one sitting. Thus, I kind of skimped on the details even more than usual.
Then again, I’m not sure I would have been happy with the central panel even if I’d spent all week working on it. It’s surprisingly hard to communicate the act of slamming into a wall when the person doing the slamming is wearing a big, bulky robo-suit. Now you know… and knowing is half the battle!
(Historical Notes: Okay, earlier I was thinking to myself how I haven’t really slipped in any fake future words as shout-outs to other works in recent comics, and I kind of missed that… but now I’m remembering why I stopped. This sort of thing has to be done sparingly to avoid getting old, and it’s getting VERY old by now.)
@ Historical Notes: Also, you have to ask how many people would notice the reference to Red Dwarf. I only noticed because I read the Historical Notes, and went back and checked. And then re-read the Historical Notes to realize that it was a purposeful reference.
That’s the other thing: I’ve learned from experience that what’s mindbogglingly obvious to one person is completely obscure and meaningless to another, so those kinds of references have to be done in a way that’s still funny even if the reader doesn’t get the reference.