(Historical Notes: For all my complaining about people standing around and talking, this really is one of the most action-packed Far Out There stories.)
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The Killer Station of Deadly Doom
161 comics.
(Historical Notes: I can see why Past Me wanted to do a more elaborate panel layout here, since the page is mostly just people standing around throwing technobabble at each other… but it’s a bit too much. The flow of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Looking over these comics again after all these years, it’s actually a bit weird to see the way Ichabod acts here. We’ve spent so much time in the main comic seeing him either annoyed by Layla or intimidated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I’m not sure if I’ll have another chance to point this out, but I really like how the illusion of a coat and tie is created on IO’s torso by those two jagged stripes. I can’t remember if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: As you can see, this was back when I was still spending a lot of time and energy on weird panel layouts, and it’s a good example of why I’ve mostly stopped doing that. The third panel with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Another weird case of the tags being spoilers for twist that’s nearly a decade old at this point. So weird the kind of things that count as “problems” in this line of work…)
(Historical Notes: Another interesting thing to think about regarding the art here. There’s no question that Present Day Me would have spent more time making the force field effect here more flashy and easier to work out visually, but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, I was half-joking about the last space station looking like a suction cup ball, but I know for a fact that I had a hand weight sitting on my desk when I had to draw up THIS[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Oh man, can you imagine just how much time Present Day Me would burn on trying to make a wild and crazy nebula effect from scratch for a page like this today?)
(Historical Notes: Okay, there’s one specific relationship in this whole arc that’s obviously meant to be the heartwarming one, but I forgot how wholesome Mooney’s humanizing of IO was. It ensures that… certain things pack more of a punch than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…