Far Out There

This was a tough one to get finished, though it was a good kind of tough. I all but ignored my rough draft (keeping only the dialog) and pretty much improvised the layout as I went. That’s a VERY risky move for me, and it resulted in a lot more post-scanning clean up than usual, but I really like the result. The finished page looks WAY more exciting than a bunch of kids standing around talking has any right to.

One thing, though: part of me really wished I’d made the first panel, with Layla’s freak out, a little bigger. I mean, that’s a REALLY entertaining image, after all. But then again, it felt wrong to take any space away from the panels that actually, you know, advance the story. Speaking of which, I guess now we know why Tabitha looked so uncomfortable back when we first saw her and Skye together, eh?

(Historical Notes: Um, Past Me?  You think that maybe, just maybe, you might want to actually SHOW some of that room allegedly full of mad scientists?  I’m pretty sure the final panel really doesn’t need all that generic purple pattern taking up page space!  You could probably use it for something better!  I mean, yes, there’s a plot-relevant reason not to show too much, but the reader shouldn’t know that yet and will thus expect to see SOMETHING.)