(Historical Notes: Well, this is it. The last regular comic I posted on SmackJeeves. There’d still be the first few Christmas pages to go, but this was the final “plot-relevant” page to go up for well over a year. At[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s odd to talk about anything being “subtle” in a page with this set of characters, but I like the subtle bit of storytelling in the lighting of the second panel. I know, I know, I like that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Well, this is annoying. There’s no Wayback Machine capture of this page, but I thought I had this really clever idea to go check the social media pages and copy the commentary from there. Problem is, the bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, just looking at this page at a glance, what’s the punchline? Where’s the “cymbal crash” that makes it funny? I’m not just looking at it, I WROTE it, and I’m still not sure. That’s because, again, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Layla’s face is waaay up there on the list of things I wish I could fix but couldn’t really do anything with because of all the color gradients. Something about that looking-upwards rolling-eyes expression that really doesn’t work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA this page turned out cool. I mean, the top panel could have been better, because at first I’d planned to do this as an animation and avoided gradients, but other than that… MAN. The whole reason I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Even at the time that this page came out, I think Past Me was annoyed that I’d forgotten to put in some kind of establishing shot to show that there’s a screen on the wall they’re looking at. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…no, seriously, I kept wanting to wander off to get snacks the longer I worked on this. And good LORD did I work on it a long time. Yeah, in case you missed it earlier, this was SUPPOSED to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: A lot of people find having their stomachs loudly rumble embarrassing because “Eeew, bodilly function.” With Layla, though, I think there’s something else. There’s lots of legends floating around that WWE owner Vince McMahon hates yawning or sneezing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: The Alt Text on this page makes a lot less sense now that we’re not on SmackJeeves anymore and I was able to use every one of the previous page’s frames as intended. Also, while I like how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…