Page 155 – Alternative Energy Sources?
I somehow don’t think this relationship is going to be long-lived.
Man, this was a HARD page to get done. I’m not talking about the wild coloring on the big panel (that was complicated, but not all that hard), I mean it was hard to force myself into actually DOING the dang thing. I mean, I had to pound out 17 pages in 48 hours for Conventional Wisdom this week, so I a feeling VERY burned out right now.
…and then I got to write the line “I’ll show you the Bunny Grinder” and that made everything all better. 😀
(Historical Note: Man, I can’t even BEGIN to imagine maintaining that level of mad productivity on Conventional Wisdom, or anything else, at this point in my life. In fact, the number of times I DID do it is probably one of the main reasons I can’t anymore. On a less burnout-related note, this page is, in a weird way, one of the absolute prototypical Far Out There pages. Disturbingly messed up in a way that’s rather adorable and colorful. This is right up there on the list of ten pages I’d use to explain Far Out There to somebody, and the art’s not even that embarrassing for this era, either!)
Honestly, I think that Page 177 – I wonder if those are Spacely Sprockets? is a better introductory page. You have Ichabod begging for someone else to do work, Layla worrying about Trigger, and Trigger being a goof. That’s a fair amount of the rarely seen sub-context of the comic all in one page.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s any one single page that, on it’s own, encapsulates the whole vibe of what Far Out There is. You’d have to have a sort of Greatest Hits compilation of a dozen or so pages.
FOT has got that “Futurama” vibe: extremely cynical and sugar syrupy-cute and eerily disturbing and sappily romantic and chillingly horrifying and touchingly sentimental and downright creepy as smeg, in both alternating and simultaneous fashion. Which I think you had mentioned Futurama as an inspiration at some point, so that fits.