See, if Marshall had been around earlier, he’d already know what a bad idea it is to take meal orders from these kids.  What’s more, LAST time they were talking to Layla, so they were trying a lot harder to be on their best behavior.  They’re no the LEAST bit intimidated by poor Marshall… well, okay, Avi definitely is, just not THAT kind of “intimidated.”

Anyway, sorry this page is late again.  I kinda got distracted by trying to get a head start on a side-project for later, and all of a sudden I’d been fiddling with it all day, and THIS project was horrendously behind schedule.  It also didn’t help that this is another one of those pages where I ended up blowing a lot of time on details that don’t really show up all that well in the final draft of the comic.  Stuff like the “crazy calculations” in the background of Tarkus’ panel or the lighting on Avi.  That last one was especially annoying, both because the fact he’s already weirdly colored in restricted what lighting tricks I could do, but also because I’m really quite pleased with the results… which got waaaaay less noticeable once I scaled the whole page down.  I think he looks a lot better in the thumbnail image for this page than the actual page itself.

Oh, and in honor of today being Labor Day here in America… I specifically decided NOT to do any extra holiday comic.  I’m already working too hard on my “day off.”

EDIT: Speaking of not doing stuff, TWC Voting Incentive is late, but it’s done!