Far Out There

You know, normally I’d feel the need to include a link back to the previous day’s unannounced extra comic, just to make sure nobody missed it. But with this page taking so long, I can feel VERY sure that everyone has already seen the April Fools page by now.

Yeah, sorry about that. Between that and the big Conventional Wisdom update, my mind and body had another one of those “Wait, you did HOW MANY things this week?” moments and involuntarily went on strike last night. (It also didn’t help that the final version of this page looks NOTHING like the rough draft I’d started working on) The good news, though, is that was the last truly time sensitive deadline I had to meet for a while, so things will be a lot more relaxed over the next few weeks… unless I just jinxed it by saying that out loud, of course.

Anyway, despite all the delays, I DID manage to get a new TWC Voting Incentive done for today as well. See? Things really ARE starting to improve around here!

Finally, I just need to state for the record that, while working on this page in Manga Studio, the layer with the speech bubbles for the lower half of the page was titled “bottom bubbles,” and it made me laugh every time I saw it. I an an enormous child.

(Historical Notes: Yeah, it was really starting to bug me just how much all my stalling tactics were weighing down the comic’s momentum by this point.  Honestly, most of the stuff in this whole stretch of comics should have been condensed into the boys’ arrival rather than spread out across multiple in-comic days.  Then I wouldn’t HAVE to awkwardly lampshade the fact that I was repeating the same setup all over again to get to the rest of the necessary character bits.)