(Historical Notes: I legit want this to be, like, Ichabod’s motto in life. It totally fits with the worldview of a life-long nitpicker, and it’s not like it’s NOT true…)
The Killer Station of Deadly Doom
(Historical Notes: Continuing with the various artist gripes, I really with the middle panel had been smaller, and he bottom panel a LOT bigger. Or, at least, Ichabod being a lot bigger to tower over Eric.)
(Historical Notes: At first I was going to moan that the lack of atmospherics kind of neutered the dramatic red light thing… but actually, I wish Past Me had thought to have more visible screens on the wall in previous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Have I mentioned yet how distracting it is that Past Me colored in Ichabod’s overcoat sometimes, but not ever time? Cos it really is distracting me.)
(Historical Notes: I really like the idea that, robo-brain-scrambling-nebula or no robo-brain-scrambling-nebula, Ichabod can be so irritating that he drives someone into hating all organic life. It’s absolutely on brand.)
(Historical Notes: And here we have yet another statement of this comic’s central theme, “Trying to help out just makes everything worse.”)
(Historical Notes: Another page were I wish I’d had the time to put more atmospheric lighting and shadow into this page. My attempt to do a little gloomy shading on Vance’s face already looks more like his speech bubble is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: …I mean, I still stand by the actual plot itself. I like the idea of a human going nuts and thinking he’s a robot. I can totally sympathize with where he’s coming from. There just needed to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Yeah, I won’t repeat myself too here, ‘cos Lord knows I’ve already said it enough in previous comments, but Vance DESPERATELY needed some solo pages to actually illustrate his decent into madness before we got to this point. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: HEEEY! Remember all the complaining I did about how we hadn’t seen enough of this guy? Well, now we all get to see why these comics don’t make up for it in retrospect!)