signal -8-

posted 2008.12.06 at 01:19

Most of my thoughts on this page were expressed in the blurb for the one before. I know Malky doesn't quite match with the background... I tried my best but he's really a 2d no-perspective entity in a fully 3d space, and it shows. Camera FOV mitigated this to an extent, but I figure it's as good as it's getting without a redraw.

Even though this scenelet has been de-spread, it was still processed the same way the chapter-till-now has been - two pages in one bigass file. This made it a heck of a lot easier to shade and letter - if Greymalkin had rambled on for more than two pages, I would have probably done things a bit differently. As it is, it was just plain easier to do it this way than it was, say... some other way.

First Edition Metadata

OPD : 2005.01.06 @ 22:29

20070723 : Bordered and edited.

The new spread isn't much different from the old spread:

However, the whole thing reads a bit better - and that's what matters.

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If these things have been annoying you, you'll be happy to learn that the next two pages are going to be much more traditional.

Damn, that's a big fucking panel.

Don't worry about the red light moving around in the sky. You'll get no explanation from me- I have no idea what the damned thing is. They're like weeds in north central PA and south central NY, which is where Greymalkin is at the moment. xeno and I have seen them multiple times- they have a funny habit of slowing down, speeding up, and/or completely disappearing without notice.

There's also a hell of a lot of military air traffic in that area, which probably has something to do with it.

Nice to be finished before midnight for a change... despite this being quite possibly the worst illustration of Greymalkin to date. Funny how the ass is always what ends up on the top for a few days. :P

Can't wait to start on the next scene... exposition never seems to come out as well as the OMFGWTF!!!! bits.

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Greymalkin is on 2 and making observations on things happening on 1. He can do that- he's a Wild And Crazy Guy.

Basic rule of thumb is that every number in front of the decimal point of an HRD reading is the number of Annex levels a person can sense "through" with proper training. Higher-level individuals can sense each other like extremely strong magnets in near proximity- Greymalkin knows Grij is there the way you know you'll need to take a dump in the near future... and Grij will doubtless pick up on Greymalkin as soon as he adapts to an AEI that's roughly 1/10th of what he's used to.