WOW this one is late. I’m really sorry, guys. I can’t even blame this one on convention preparation or whatever. It just took me forever to get started on this page, and even longer to get finished. Measures will be taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

At least I can say I like how this page turned out. Seeing Layla go all Mama Bear to protect Trigger is always cute. The second panel underwent a weird creative progression: At first, the plan was for Trigger to have felt a trail of plain ol’ deactivated robots… but since Stilez was already trashing robots and everything else in the place, it didn’t seem like that would stand out much. Somehow, the solution was glitchily sing Beatles songs. Because of course it was.

Anyway, if nothing else, at least I got a new Voting Incentive done on time. That’s SOMETHING, right?

(Historical Notes: SEVERAL things to get into here.  First, this is another page where the effects really got away from me, and I had to some major re-editing surgery to make it clear where the robots stop and the backgrounds begin.  Second, the whole “Beatles lyrics for some reason” thing is another one of those jokes that I don’t think belongs as the main punchline of a comic.  I’ve said it before, but that kind of real world reference needs to be limited to background gags.  And besides, why did I pick BEATLES songs for this joke in the first place?  I know at least a DOZEN other bands that would have been better representations of druggy psychedelic bands AND wouldn’t have been quite so obvious!  Finally, it was asked why Trigger didn’t just reprogram the robots to protect Layla.  The idea was supposed to be that he was in too much of a hurry to actually hack them into doing anything USEFUL, which is why the end result is so random.  That does NOT come through in the finished page, though.)