convergence -4-
posted 2009.01.24 at 19:47
Getting this one fixed was a lengthy exercise in un-fun. The biggest bit of un-fun was removing the publicity shot of the Z Machine I'd been using for the "back" of Xand's diagnostic thinger - it makes the background look flatter, but it's completely mine now - woot, woot.
Also, any pretext of song lyrics is gone - I've learned the hard way over the years that loud music doesn't adapt itself very well to the sequential art form. I started to learn that here, and really learned it with the opening scenes of Dead City Radio.
I also killed the hollywoodOS "joke" in panel four. It was awful, and it's horribly legible. Or rather, it was.
First Edition Metadata
OPD : 2003.06.11 @ 00:00
20070722 : Scaled and tweaked. Old version here.
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Omfg this was PAIN HOLY SHIT. I find it amusing that Ian and I scratched out on the same night- I started on this Monday evening. Things got difficult around the time of background construction, at which point my brain exploded and I had an anxiety attack. I kept three pieces of the Monday construction (left hand with stylus, hand readout, and the 3/4 frontal of Xand), tweaked Xand to put her more in place with living in the Australian outback, and completely rebuilt everything else Tuesday evening.
Backgrounds are not my strong point- this page went through several design revisions, and I would up redoing the layout a zillionth time and whacking it from six frames to five while I was doing the second round of inks.
Problems galore, to put it midlly. I wound up rebuilding the screen, extending the desk, adding all of the foreground monitors (save one) and fleshing out the diagnostics bay in photoshop. Time consuming.
Fortunately, it's DONE. And I had to blow off a few people to get it there. I'm assuming the people I know in meatspace will eventually realize that when I say a single page takes 4-6 hours (this one, spanning both days, was more like 10), I mean uninterrupted. It's not that I hate people- I'm just busy. Most of them seem to assume that for some reason, I'm not.
Well, I'm busier than usual lately, thanks to this. And as much of a brain-explody nightmare as it can be, I'm enjoying it. Honest. I am. Really.
ONWARD!!!!!1
Oh, and.
Hopefully it's obvious, but the reason there's an arrow pointing at what's coming out of Xand's mouth instead of the usual word balloon tail is that I'm trying (emphasize trying) to imply that it's fucking impossible to hear anything anyone's saying over a quad pile of Marshall amps blasting Manson.