Comic 979 - Wasted On The Blue
7th Jul 2020, 11:00 PM
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Author Notes:
I do think that it should probably be noted that I'm a little unclear on if Sareena will really have any kind of presence in this chapter? I could see her being alluded to or maybe in a flashback or something but her presence here is more kind of a thematic thing in regards to Martina than it is directly tying into the events of the chapter. Rick, Marina, and the kids will all of course be parts of it, though. ... Not a long wait on Rick either like Adam said.
Went and accidentally uploaded the page with the layer for it turned off but fixed now, one additional thing that you might notice with this page is the fence; we've been doing a lot of experiments with tones and patterns of late and that was one little thing that I came away from this cover pretty happy with. Kind of the case with a lot of this one, not really my favorite cover ever if only because the most recent WaR one would be very hard to top but still a lot of stuff I'm pretty pleased with.
Really hoping everyone's going to enjoy. This is likely going to be a pretty lengthy chapter with a lot going on but we're really angling to make it a big fun ride.
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Wolfintina
7th Jul 2020, 11:31 PM
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Very interesting, wonder what's going to happen in this chapter.
Should probably say a few things about this; firstly despite the grim cover, the actual contents of the chapter are pretty breezy and fun, and also that this is the last chapter before this story arc's climax. Sort of how the Fontainebleu-treasure chapter was the penultimate one before the Marvelous Man climax. The two chapters sort of serve the same function of being something light and cheery before the more serious payoff.
By "light and cheery" I mean that for this chapter we dial the cuteness of this chapter so high I'm pretty sure we broke the knob.
Kind of just wanted to get that out of the way for everyone. I try to avoid the Covers Always Lie Trope, but it's hard to do when we're always so close to the chest about the plot of our chapters.
Will just admit that this was an attempt to mimic the freakishly-awesome cover Martin recently used in Wright As Rayne.
http://wrightasrayne.thecomicseries.com/comics/922/
I feel like some bars were raised with that cover and I wanted to pick it up. Me and Martin both put a lot of work into this cover to punch it up, but it still didn't quite match that one in terms of sheer awesomeness. I still feel like this was a step up, and I want more covers to have a bigger impact.
As you can see, Martina Ferguza is back, first time since the aforementioned Fontainebleu chapter... I really like her; every time she shows up I feel like she's bringing something new. We also see from the Cover Box that Rick's crew is popping back up, and since he turned out to be a popular character, imagine a few readers will be happy about that. You won't have to wait long for either one, don't worry. ^^