Page 352 – Keeping the exposition off screen, where it belongs
So, yeah. They’re playing “Hungry Hungry Paramecia” as per the request of BlkKnight (see the many benefits of commenting?) Speaking of whom, thanks for pointing out the grammatical flub in the original name.
What’s more, now I have an excuse for the WEIRDEST PAGE LAYOUT IN MONTHS! There’s really no reason at all for the whole thing to look like a paramecium, outside of the fact that the past few weeks have just been too NORMAL LOOKING. Can’t have that, can we?
Well, despite the past MANY pages being loaded in advance, I’m only just now back in Raleigh for Animazement (well, not as I write this, but as you read it). Thus, Voting Incentives MIGHT get a little unpredictable for the rest of the month. Hopefully everything will be under control, but this is a con we’re talking about. Things NEVER go as planed…
(Historical Notes: This is either a high point or low point in ostentatious page design, depending on how you look at it. More and more, I’m coming to see it as a low. I’m fine with a crazy, elaborate panel layout if it actually adds to the story, but like so many bells and whistles I’ve added to pages over the years, this just exists for its own sake. That’s just wasteful. Oh, and there’s actually some veeeeeery long-form storytelling at work in this page… so long, I’d forgotten I’d even mentioned it this far back!)
What?!? Veeeeery long-form? That worries me – as long as the arcs are for FOT, I’m not sure my limited Human Lifespan will ever allow me to see the result! 🙂
Trigger reunites with his parents? Layla and Trigger ride around with Ichabod until they’re senior citizens? The entire crew becomes infested with artificially intelligent holographic paramecia?! What could it be?!
I tried to come up with a way to subtly reference what the future-tidbit actually is, but if there’s a way to do it without spoiling anything, I can’t think of what it is.
Also, you think YOU’RE worried about not living long enough for the resolutions? I literally have a word document on my desktop titled “Read If I Die” that outlines all the future plotlines just in case I croak before they’re drawn.
That’s good information to know. In the same vein as those terminally ill fans who got Lucas to pre-screen the Star Wars movies for them months before they came out, I shall be requesting said word document if such a thing were ever to happen to me! Though with my luck, I’ll get hit by a car, and my last thoughts will be wondering what the heck was actually in the Mystery Room.
Also, a just-in-case-nitpick – make sure the word document includes your admin password for this site, so your executors can let us know too!
Wow, that’s actually a really good point. I’ll go add that right now!