Still pretty happy with how those window-lighting effects turned out. (And extra-happy I wasn’t doing this comic in full color.)
Everything I know about hat requirements in black churches, I learned from Curtis.
For readers, the highlight of this page was Sparrow’s Flying Spaghetti Monster shirt.
That nice little church was definitely referenced from a specific building, and I definitely don’t remember which one.
At last, Bianca and Sparrow saying “should we try to avoid the whole main plot of the comic? Nah, let’s go find the plot.” (Once they’re caught up on Inspector Spacetime, anyway.)
…oh heck, there’s a big bookshelf next to Sparrow’s chair. When we get to future apartment scenes, I completely forgot that existed.
This is why you make master layout references for any place you’re going to draw a lot.
“But Erin, didn’t you just say this place was based on the place you actually lived?” Yes, in general — but not exactly. I felt like it wasn’t creative enough to just copy it without changing stuff around a bit. (In retrospect…why did I make it harder for myself? Who was going to know?)
Gotta roll up your sleeves when you’re a politician, it makes you look Rugged and Down-To-Earth. (Unless you’re a woman, in which case anything you wear is wrong somehow.)
And hey, this was the reveal of Bennett’s Colorful Hair of Plot Significance.
Greg, meanwhile, is about to drop out of the plot completely, never to be seen again except in a one-page cameo in chapter 16.
No April Fool’s day page this year, just a bunch of thoughts about envelope-stuffing.
The first time I did it was as a volunteer, for some kind of school function…I think it was high school, that long ago…and we were racing against the clock because it was a few days before postage rates were due to go up. Overshooting by one day would’ve cost thousands of dollars.
But normally you don’t even get that much drama to break up the busywork. And unfortunately for these two, podcasts haven’t really taken off much by 2010.
Greg is here because he’s an economics wonk; Sparrow just wants to support justice in general, and trusts other people to dig into the financial details.
From “big black silhouette with accents is good enough for Poe” to “big black silhouettes with accents is the entire skyline.”
I like the detail on the interior design, though. The partly-obscured photo in that last panel is our first indication that Cybele’s human is (or was) married at some point.
(Looking back at the original post, somebody suspected Cybele was the woman in the wedding photo…thankfully, no!)
First look at Miranda’s bedroom. Unlike Sparrow and Bianca’s apartment, this one isn’t based on anywhere I ever lived.
…except that I did have that big striped pillow.
“I’m using Skype” is a nice more-plausible upgrade to the old excuse of “you heard people talking in here? Oh, that was just the TV!”
The rush of the Kickstarter is over! The funding goal has been hit! The massive 3-book omnibus is happening! And now…back to releasing annotated pages, one day at a time. Bit of an anticlimax, huh.
New cover art features Past Reseda in an homage to a Sailor Moon artbook piece — the same one Lady Gaga did a hat-tip to, years back. I totally forgot I used a color-shifted version of this texture for the background. It’s a real versatile workhorse, that one.
Original cover had Timothy holding a bouquet of camellias. The update doesn’t have camellias, lilies, or reseda…just the dogwoods that Past Lily was always wearing. More on those later.
