Elliwiny: There’s a lot of outlines of people in these meeting scenes, and I vaguely remember that it’s because I got overwhelmed by the scope and Sin suggested I go about it that way. Looking back, there really isn’t anything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: I don’t know what to call this panel layout, where there are things going on at the same time in different places and the panels are staggered to visually separate them, but it’s become one of my favorite layouts.
Elliwiny: I said before that the smart thing to do would be to shoot a text to your co-conspirators warning them about the calls, but then again…
Elliwiny: I learned SO much about commercial kitchen spaces while doing these two pages. Sin worked at a restaurant at the time and had all the good notes. Sincerely: Kitchens! How convenient that with the bankers and the aliens using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: I really love Dr. Stone’s understated entrance into the story as just another one of these banker types.
Elliwiny: Any opportunity I have to fill up a panel with the Oros, I take it!! And he’s a spook, Seti, you can just say he’s a spook. I feel like Elet Lorn was going to be a big bad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Hahahahaha Fitzwilliam talking about the flu or somesuch like it’s a novel inconvenience sure does hit different here in 2023
Elliwiny: Watch out, he’s got a microphone! Fun fact, this reporter is the same one we see at the beginning/end of the story. Sincerely: “But there are plenty of Humans in space already” is kind of a red herring, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Back when I drew it, I don’t think I appreciated or understood all the little tricks I used to support Sin’s writing for this exposition. Like how Seti slows down his speech with an air of condescension, and how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: I kinda wish I’d drawn Tath Seti on the interior of the bus, even though past me would have haaated it and it doesn’t really add anything to this transition. I just think the visual of Tath Seti’s posse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…