Far Out There

Well, it does say “HORRIFYING Christmas,” what’d you expect?

I worried about how much shading to do on that lower half, since anything TOO elaborate would screw up the “cheep kid’s book” vibe I was striving for… not to mention taking a lot longer. Still, I should have at least had the dark parts reach to the edge of the page. Drat.

But I DO love the top half of the page. It’s great how this was obviously Alphonse’s idea in the first place, yet it’s clearly Bridget who’s taking the lead in actually DOING something. Methinks this is how things usually go between them.

(Historical Notes: More of that mysterious setting I obviously didn’t about hard enough beforehand.  I guess the thought was that old-school Frankenstein-style mad scientists are often depicted as living in ruined old castles, so the SciFi version of that would be living on a ruined old WORLD.  I mean, the thought beyond “I need a creepy rundown Christmas location,” since you could easily just have one of those sketchy “Christmas All Year Round” theme parks for that.)