Far Out There

Another page that inherited a LOT of text it wasn’t originally going to have.  I mean, Astrid was always going to do a BIT of narration to carry us through the transition from the police station scene to this one, but nowhere near this much.  But much as she alludes to in said narration, the original version involved a LOT of back and forth dialog spread out across several pages, and I wound up really needing those pages somewhere else.  See, it’s times like this when I realize just how spoiled us webcomic artists are.  I only force this kind of page restriction upon myself for one project per year, then sprawl out across as many pages as I want the rest of the time.  I can’t imagine being one of the folks who have to work within a fixed number of pages every couple of weeks.  Well, actually I can imagine it, and it seems miserable.

All that said, there was supposed to be a lot more detailing on the door (including some nifty candycane door knobs), but then it all got covered up by the extra narration boxes.  Drat.

Also also, one casualty of having to condense all this exposition to narration instead of dialog is a funny line about how they usually only get one night out of the year to try and catch this scam in action, so of COURSE the internal investigation didn’t make much progress.  Double drat.