Comic for Wednesday, November 4th
This comic is a wee bit later than expected since I realized just before posting that Tyler’s coat lacked a collar, which was tragic, so I had to fix it, and fixing art is a little tricky due to some of my process steps. Still, no one would probably have known is color was added in post production if I hadn’t mentioned it… 😛
Anyway… comic. Peter walks that fine line between childish and brilliant. You can never know what side of the fence he’s going to land on, but telling him he can’t do something, well… that’s a good way to bring out the side that makes less-good-decisions sometimes, fortunately he seems to have been interrupted, unfortunately he seems to have be interrupted by a double scoop of trouble.
All around this situation is unfortunate. It just seems like the sort of thing that would make a bunch of suspicious people even more suspicious. I spent more time than I care to admit working on Peter’s sigh on the insight panel. Not sure I’d call it a success, but I figured at least people would understand it with the sigh rather the various other effects I considered (ranging from more manga-ish effects to more onomatopoeic things).
And yes, the sky is now actually blue. And has clouds. It’s sorta weird. I think we are leaving our grey-scale background roots, and that’s scary. But I think in time it’ll be for the best 😉
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That’s the problem with 4-dimensional plotting. Occasionally it collapses into n-space. 🙂
I once read a novelette about a “hard-boiled” private investigator which was set in medieval times. The story was so-so, but the protagonist wore a “trenchcloak”. I think of that word every time I see Tyler’s coat billow like that. ^^
And just to mix my metaphors, Kally and Tyler look like they’re squaring off for an Old West gunfight. 🙂
Oh, my stars and garters, that sky is incredibly realistic. You really have something there. 🙂
In Peter’s defense it’s less than his plan is imploding and more that it got side swiped by other free-roaming plotlines that just sort of plowed into him… I mean, sure, it’s still his fault, but they were sort of incidental plots that just sort happened. 😛
Both Tyler and Kally have reason to think of the worst really – Tyler isn’t impressed by the concept of “different department, not my fault” and was attacked by the IDS recently – now he sees Kally and Otte at the same time. Kally wasn’t aware that Tyler was already fairly certain the Peter was linked to the IDS and had been trying to avoid directly making that connection in front of him (with dubious success).
‘Stars and garters’… that’s a new one on me. 😛
It’s a thing.
It originally referred to the highest honors bestowed by the British Empire, but became an old-time expression of delight in the U.S.
I am looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Looks like an… interesting situation.
It’s sort of a… delicate balance… sort of like when you’ve taken up flame juggling in an old warships powder room. Speed flame juggling. Under pressure. 😉