Comic 980 - Wasted On The Blue, Page 1
10th Jul 2020, 11:00 PM
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Okay.... So for starters, yeah, told you we wouldn't have to wait long on Rick; him popping up this early is supposed to try and indicate that there'll be a lot of comedy in this chapter as he's mostly a light-hearted character. Helps that he was popular enough that we had a few fans asking when he'd be showing back up. We'd like him to be semi-regular. We also finally get to see his Grandpa.... Took a while to decide what the guy looked like. Actor James Hong was a main inspiration for his face with some Miyazaki thrown in. The former of those is a weird reference since I was trying to make him look very sweet and Santa-like, and my main association with James Hong is the movie where he played an undead sorcerer who tries to rule the universe from beyond the grave.
Martina, meanwhile, has a few things revealed about her; namely she was adopted. That's not a mentor or teacher in the second panel, that's her Mom. This was a random coloring choice Martin threw in the last time she had a major role in a chapter, but it wound up influencing how we write her character quite a bit. Speaking of, we're recycling her teenager design from that same page.
bluebloodheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/755
That speech she's giving in the page I just linked? About how she had to scrape and work for everything she has? That colors a lot of her interactions with Rick.
While we'll see soon that Rick's gotten SLIGHTLY more mature since his debut, it's a pretty slow start. The top half of the page have identical panel layouts and the 1st and 4th panels are the same shot, implying that he's the same kid he was when they first met, at least in Martina's eyes. Martin added onto that in the coloring by making his robe the same colors he wore as a little boy.
Lillie wasn't originally gonna be in the page, but none of Rick's group were present and it felt weird so I threw her in as a funny gag. Idea is she tried cooking dinner with magic and it had her usual opposite-effect issue.
Like Adam mentioned, some ideas in regards to Martina came out of a split second coloring choice I made back in Fontainebleu in regards to her mom; I kind of got the idea in coloring it that I could see her being adopted (given some of what we had in mind with her) and went ahead and threw that detail in, then it subsequently led to kind of talking about it further and figuring out some ways to play that into future plans for her. Probably be awhile before we get too far into that but it will be nudged at a little bit further as this scene goes on.
Like Adam said, kind of a difficult one to comment on but I think it came out pretty fun, do hope that everyone enjoys.
If that is her mom why is Martina white and her mom is black shouldn't her skin be light dark if she's mixed race or is she adopted?
If that is her grandmom and her daughter married a white guy wouldn't Martina still have some dark skin?
I don't know maybe I'm just being stupid and I certainly don't mean to sound racist it's just something that's confusing me.