Star Strip page 84
bravo1102 on March 31, 2015
Da-tu and Lon come to an understanding. Or not. This is the last finished page. I decided not to do the big fight. It is tempting to do a big brawl like the original Casino Royale with all kinds of out-of-place people showing up culminating in a nuclear explosion that kills everybody. But no.
This page took a while because I wasn't sure how to handle a couple of the panels and the script was no help. Then the Beast figure would not cooperate. Lon is a very tall figure and Beast wasn't as tall as I had thought and his hands could not grasp Lon's throat the way I originally intended. But then a glance around at so many comics, especially 3-D ones, and characters have all kinds of holding and grabbing problems. I've also noticed that some comics have floating characters. It's not that hard to add a touch of shadow to the foot or body to indicate a figure's contact with the ground. Or squish and blend a hand or elbow to get firm contact with another figure. Quality and attention to detail has never had anything to do with readership.
El Cid at 5:50AM, April 6, 2015
Probably would've been smarter to just kill him. But I won't be a backseat hijacker.
KimLuster at 3:54PM, April 4, 2015
ahhh gotcha... I'd guessed Jill's hand-wipe (those grey gals haha), but the Nacelles... (learned a new word, btw). Yeah Enterprise has two - Surprise has one!!
bravo1102 at 11:26AM, April 3, 2015
The number of nacelles on the ship diagram in the background. Jill's wiping her mouth is not a flub but hinting at what she and Frank were up to. Then there's also how do you define "yuck" Tissue harvesting versus oral sex?
KimLuster at 12:25PM, April 2, 2015
I still can't make out these 'intentional' flubs you mention! What am I missing?
jerrie at 9:00AM, April 2, 2015
LOL!!! Put him down Fluffy
bravo1102 at 7:53AM, April 2, 2015
Hmm no one has noticed Jill wiping her mouth in panel four or the intentional flub with the ship data plate in panels one and two. ;-)
plymayer at 11:19PM, April 1, 2015
Well, as long as Woody Allen doesn't make a walk through....
Banes at 2:22PM, April 1, 2015
Those little details help...and ironically are invisible when done right. Old Lon...what a rascal! He finally lost that smile, though it came back pretty quickly. Hmmm..."putting him down" has a second meaning...careful Lonnie!
KimLuster at 5:29AM, April 1, 2015
I think you did an incredible job on the close-quarters grappling! That middle panel especially!! And tissue harvesting and stripping are... sorta close lol!