Comic 1107 - Midnight Blue, Page 31
12th Oct 2021, 11:00 PM
in Midnight Blue
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Author Notes:
This was fun to do and found myself pretty eager to see how the final product would turn out. Lot of little bits I enjoyed doing with it; the Nicky and Protocol thing funny enough stemmed from not being sure what to have Nicky do to smash the place up then realizing that Protocol due to not having her suit would likely be facing similar issues so just turned it into a joke of the two of them standing around awkwardly. Adam rewrote the phrasing on that a bit (in particular adding the bit about the cosmetics) but that was more or less how I laid it out.
Lillie freaking out over a spider was a gag we'd had in mind for this for a bit though it was looking like it might end up relegated to filler after the chapter instead of being worked into the comic. I saw an opportunity for it here though, and then Adam came up with the great idea to take that concept and work it into a much darker undercurrent that runs through her character. I like how it's funny but also kind of sweet that while afraid of spiders Lillie sees Mantioda as someone who could come save her as opposed to scary in her own right, I think combined with her friends here it kind of goes to show how Lillie's maybe been more changed by living with Rick and crew than she realizes.
Also I like that this gave me the chance to play around with more dynamic sound effects. Thoughts on how that turned out? It's something I've been wanting to try integrating into the comics more in general but given the creepy nightmare feel of things right now this felt like a good excuse to do it regardless of whether or not it felt out of place. Be good to get feedback on that, probably will influence whether or not we see a lot more of that going forward.
It's been interesting writing Andy these past couple of pages. I do feel like he's maybe been a bit more friendly and eager to please than is kind of typical for him, but I've been sort of thinking he probably recognizes that Lore's still in a bit of a position where he shouldn't go in too hard with the teasing. Both pages had bits where as I originally wrote him it felt too mean for the situation and I had to walk it back.
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Wolfintina
13th Oct 2021, 1:30 AM
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Looks fine to me, very interesting.
But yeah, seeing the kids just have fun wrecking the place was just a neat thing to dive into, my favorite bit being Valerie just casually walking while firing her beam at the wall. Simple but fun page for what we're doing. ^^
My favorite part was easily seeing Lillie's nightmare, was some good back and forth on it. Martin came up with it in the script, but I thought it'd be interesting if in addition to the spider you could see the "characters" from Lillie's TV show behind her pointing and laughing. They wound up having this creepy tone to them, and Martin came up with the line of her begging for Mantioda.... I think even Lillie probably thinks the nightmare is about the spider, but it's really about being trapped in her old TV life with her old "friends" who were really nothing but cruel to her. Wound up just being a neat little touch.