Notes: Pages
18 and 19 were printed as a two-page spread. So while I'm looking at them
individually now, the overall effect was quite different in the comic.
All in all, I'm
pretty happy with this page. It does, however, make pretty clear my impatience
with drawing backgrounds. I mean, in each of the first three panels (which
are supposed to be candid scenes from inside Club Mutante) there's only
a single visual element. THAT'S no way to draw "scene setting" images.
I really used the cross-hatching as a crutch ... trying to substitute texture
for substance. Now, VISUALLY it works ... but it really is a lazy trick.
Looking at it
now, I really tried to cram too much text into the last panel (and it gets
even MORE abusive when you see the first panel of page 19). But other than
cleaning up my sloppy lettering, I don't know how I could have avoided
this problem. The details of the "bigger on the inside than outside" nature
of Club Mutante becomes pretty important before the comic ends. (Oops!
Does that count as a spoiler?)
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