Comic 1016 - Wasted on the Blue, Page 29
13th Nov 2020, 11:00 PM
in Wasted on the Blue
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Author Notes:
Heheh.... Yeah, we're really trying to get as many cute cameos as we can. The other Peacekeepers were obviously gonna come up; Telegirl as a baby and a really cute kid-version of Qrime Qure were both natural fits. Really wish we could get a better look at the latter.... Maybe later, since we're obviously going to need to see the two other Peacekeepers that have yet to pop up.
But yeah, we also get a random cameo from Darkskull, the psycho the kids "battled" way back in Chapter 7. Been wondering when/if he'd show up again..... It's weird, since the reason I love the joke is that nobody remember who he is. That's probably going to keep him from returning in a future chapter as a focused villain; it'd be hard to keep the kids from getting what his deal is. It's only funny if he keeps sliding below the radar.
Was going to go with a Sin City style for Darkskull's weird visions instead of Liefeld... But that led to me actually sitting down and reading some Sin City for the first time in years and.... Yikes. That comic did not age well. Looking back on it as an adult, it's really juvenile. And this is from a guy who writes and draws a PG comic with a Saturday morning feel about kids who punch bad guys. That got me all disillusioned so I sort of just wound up pushing the pen around.
I actually had a whole page in mind for Darkskull at the start of this arc. With the Blues kids going public he'd be able to convince the doctors he's not actually insane, which leads to him being transferred to a normal prison. We'd get several panels of him being loaded onto the bus, de-loused, given his uniform, all in his art style, boasting about how he's going to bring order to the prison and show the inmates real justice and how they're the ones locked up with him.... Only for the last panel to show him on the ground unconscious after picking a fight with Jake (who it so happens was looking for someone to beat up on his first day). It got cut because of the decision to keep Jake entirely offscreen; prior to that we were considering having between-chapter little fillers showing Jake's time in person, reading papers about the kids' exploits in the chapter just before it, but whole idea was dropped. Wanted to make his absence seem more glaring.
Eh. Another, lesser cameo, are the EVA expies we saw back in Marvelous Man's attack. They show up regressed here, being expies of Shinji, Kaworu, and Misato, now joined by one of Rei. All very cute. ^^
I also rather like the interplay between the kids and the Peacekeepers here. I do tend to like when we give the Peacekeepers some more involved screentime, which hasn't had too many opportunities to happen with this arc given we've been trying to be quicker paced about it than the Marvelous Man one (where if anything he got way too much screentime), and in particular Lore and Protocol's dynamic can be pretty fun.
Weird, I've had to do lot of freckles in the comics lately, Telegirl here and then a few other characters in the next Wright as Rayne page. Strange how that shakes out.
Those extras in the fourth and fifth panels are pretty eye-catching, eh? Kind of just a for us little touch throwing them in, but maybe some folks'll get it.
I bring this up, because I think it would be absolutely hilarious if Darkskull was stuck as a 4 year old, trying to do his thing. And he's just a running gag. The kids need a age-appropriate villain for once, even if it's a big joke like him. XD
It's "AW WIWL FEEW D'WAF UHF DAR'SKUHW!"
XD