Elliwiny: To sound effect, or not to sound effect…. To this day I don’t know if I made the right calls. Most of this scene is technically ‘silent’. It felt wrong to put a big BOOM! On this page in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: So one of the big comic no-nos is this concept called tangents – If you’re unfamiliar, a tangent is when a line butts up against another line in such a way that it visually connects the two shapes together.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: Elli and I talked about this a lot. Jack spends the entire comic being a goofy dumbass, we really wanted this moment to be jarring, a huge tone shift. We had a joke while working on these pages where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: Ugh I love these colors and this cover. It conveys the mood of the chapter so perfectly. Elliwiny: Red and Green, baby. It’s Christmas time!!!
Elliwiny: Sara deletes her SMS history dilligently. But if she didn’t…
Elliwiny: How can she forget YOU LITERALLY NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT IT
Sincerely: This page is also kind of significantly insignificant. Jack liking wearing ties, doing his makeup to hide his black eye, and his banter with Atticus, intentionally getting the victory candy thing wrong (we know from last chapter that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: That fourth-wall breaking Stone is great and I’m so proud of the gravitas he brings to this turning point sequence, but the last panel on this page is one of my favorite individual panels of all time (even tho[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: Vigi despairing in the background in panel 4. I’m sorry, people who were rooting for Vigi, but not that sorry.
Sincerely: That last panel was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to describe for Elli to draw, but, of course, she always delivers in the end. God damn, it’s beautiful. So ends, The Bit. Thank you for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…