Far Out There

…and just like that, two whole weeks of text-free pages are canceled out. Well, at least it’s a pretty mild Wall of Text, by Far Out There standards. I didn’t even have to shrink the font down much to fit it all on the page this time!

The truth is, though, I just needed a page I could knock out really quick, and Walls of Text make for a VERY short inking process. Animazement is next weekend, and one of the 234,562,789 that needs to get accomplished before I leave for that Thursday is I need to have that Friday’s page finished, and I can’t start THAT until next Tuesday’s is done. Thus, today’s page was a bit of a necessary evil to give me a head start on next week.

But yeah, it’s been a pretty hectic week, and will get even more hectic over the next few days. I still have to print up promo fliers and get all my cosplay stuff in order, and I’m supposed to be helping with a panel and… well, there’s a lot going on. Sadly, this means that I most likely will NOT have the store stuff available by next weekend. I hate to put it off longer, but there’s just too many other things I’m juggling to make that happen yet. In fact, there’s SO much going on that I nearly forgot to mention it’s my birthday today. YAY ME!!!

(Historical Notes: Okay, here’s the payoff.  I don’t like the introduction of this new robot threat into the mix, or at least not HOW it’s introduced.  As it is, looks too much like I just suddenly decided to throw one more obstacle at the characters with a flimsy “Oh, Tabitha built it” explanation to try and add some justification… because that’s totally what happened.  What SHOULD have happened, if I’d thought ahead far enough to plan it out, was to have Tabitha drop a few offhand references to to some big scary something she dropped off just before running into Layla.  Nothing major, just some scattered referenced to having brought something potentially dangerous that she never gets around to describing.  That way, this would actually feel like a resolution to something, not just a frantic expo-dump to patch up any plot holes.  For the record, I don’t mind Tabitha’s DAD having a plan that’s obviously made up as I wrote it, because he’s crazy.  In his case, the fact that his actions conform to no obvious narrative pattern actually kind of works.  But Tabitha’s supposed to be the sane one.  Her sub-plots need to actually build and resolve themselves.)