YAY!  I’m back to posting a complete, finished page right away instead of a rough draft! …but BOY was I tempted to go ahead and do that for a third time in a row.  Just in case anybody didn’t see me bellyaching last week, this page was SUPPOSED to be the bottom half of last weeks page, until I realize it was gonna be waaaaay too crowded.  And the funny thing is, IT’S STILL WAY TOO CROWDED!  I had to do some major surgery to the top panel to try and work around all the people sitting between Mariska and Layla, and I’m not gonna lie: part of the reason for the more abstract, colorful layout was just so had an excuse to obscure as much of the table as possible and hide how the perspective kinda makes no sense.  You’d think that, after so many years working on a comic with so little forward momentum, that I’d know how to draw a bunch of people sitting in one place.

Also, guess who totally forgot to do a new TWC Voting Incentive last week?  Yeah, things were just blowing from every direction, creatively speaking, and I just completely lost track of what I was doing.  Sorry about that.  And the worst thing is, as much as I’d like to do the whole “I promise to do better this week” thing… I honestly don’t think I can.  One of said things blowing up was the current Conventional Wisdom set of comics, which I spent much of last week reworking and will thus spend much of THIS week frantically scrambling to get back on track posting.  In the midst of all that, I can’t in good conscience guarantee that I won’t totally lose track of what day of the week it is AGAIN.  I mean, I’ll TRY, but still…