page 711 – colorscolorscolors
So, when I decided to randomly toss swirly psychedelic colors all over the last page, it wasn’t supposed to actually be happening in universe. It was just gonna be one of those dramatic effect things… But naw, screw that. Now the robots Trigger tampered with are literally shooting blinding rainbow colors everywhere… SOMEHOW. I mean, all robots in this universe are clearly designed so that their eyes change color whenever they turn evil, so maybe Trigger just tapped into that?
Also, new Voting Incentive with more costume swapping fun!
(Historical Notes: Okay, this was by FAR the worst page of this batch in terms of the background overpowering the art, and I easily spent the most time adding new layers and cranking up the brightness and re-filling the lines back in to try and make everything more legible. Actually, the end result turned out BETTER than expected, since the last minute decision to keep the background showing through Stilez’s eyes adds waaaaaaaaay more than I thought it would. Gotta love a happy ending!)
Yeah, as per what I said in the previous page, if this wasn’t The Beatles, what the Robots are doing in this page would have made NO SENSE AT ALL to me. After all, I would have been assuming that they were making random sounds, and them syncing up for no reason wouldn’t have made sense. I mean, I likely would have ignored it, but I get so much more meaning out of the page simply because it WAS The Beatles that you chose.
Alt text: I’m obviously missing a reference or something – why should this page have a convenience store joke?
‘Cos it’s page 7-Eleven… which is admittedly less obvious when the page number doesn’t spell half of it out the way the store name does (and also won’t land if you don’t live someplace where 7-Eleven is plentiful. Heck, I don;t think I’ve even been inside one other than when I lived in DC)
wow, i had completely forgotten about that store (since there don’t seem to be any of them around here) – I kind of thought it had gone out of business – I think it’s been 30+ years since I’ve been in one. But apparently they’re doing just fine. Just not around here. Also, odd fact: apparently they’re Big In Japan. (>20,000 stores in Japan vs 8,000 in the US)
Whatever would I do without The Internet to teach me useless stuff?
Yeah, they’re technically a Japanese company now, because the heads of the Japanese branch bought out the American office. But yes, down here in the Southeast, the bloody war between Sheetz and Wawa has left 7-Eleven as an irrelevant afterthought.