page 1023 – just a few questions
Man, anybody just now wandering in without reading any of the previous pages is going to be SO confused by all this gibberish.
So, I started to sketch out the boys’ pile of luggage and it occurred to me that it reminded me of that room full of crates in Citizen Kane… and the next thing I knew I wasn’t bothering to finish sketching out that background. All the more time to blindly fumble through old pages to find a clear picture of that one spacesuit Ichabod wore the LAST time Avatar was sulking outside the ship.
Anyway, thanks for bearing with me on this Saturday update, gang. Next week should be back on the normal schedule, give or take the occasional late night/early morning. And look! A fresh Voting Incentive made it up to Top WebComics while it was still Friday! Good for me!
(Historical Notes: Oh look! I found a copy of the page with the original commentary AFTER I re-posted this page. Time to edit these Historical Notes! Anyway, this is an idea that sounded a lot better in my head. Both as a way of saving time and also as an intended “clever shout-out” to a classic film, it’s just not that good. I mean, it’s not that clever, but that’s only half the issue. The ACTUAL problem is that I didn’t go looking for such a screenshot until well after I’d already drawn and scanned all the artwork, only THEN realizing that there kind of isn’t a screenshot that fits the angle of this page. As it is, I had to go with this weird overhead shot, which makes it look like Layla’s hanging from the ceiling. And speaking of things that don’t work, Tabitha’s appearances continue to be too clunky and disjointed. We really needed some kind of on-screen transition where we see her realize Avatar was the cause of all that shaking earlier and decides to go see for herself. As it is, the abruptness isn’t so much funny as it is disorienting, and makes one wonder why she was even in the previous pages. I mean, yeah, we get that Tabitha’s a bit flighty and distractable, but it shouldn’t be allowed to compromise the narrative flow of the comic.)
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