246-250 : Small action, large Author's Notes.

Svenyip on Aug. 28, 2006

Dictionary: “Bushkill - when a player who did little to no damage against a boss enemy comes in at the last second to inflict the final hit and receive credit for the victory.”

In the ORIGINAL version of ‘Sprite Life,’ Panel #250 had Dr. Light (not “Prof. Skeets”) saying ERAUQS SI DLROW EHT.

This is because Panels #251 and beyond had me change the style of “voice bubbles.” Originally I'd tried to draw them by hand as actual ‘circles,’ and damned if a good number of them didn't look like absolute CRAP. So for the sake of cleaner, faster panel production, I changed them into crisper rectangle/square shapes.

If you've been paying attention, you probably haven't noticed any crappily “drawn by hand” voice bubble circles. That's because I re-did them all as I went along ‘converting’ all the individual panels into groups of five-to-a-page. So now ALL the voice bubbles in Sprite Life are rectangles, all the way from ‘T-minus 5’ onwards.


Now that I've finally caught up with the panels that were rectangles, it'll make ‘converting’ future panels a lot faster since I won't be redrawing the voice bubbles.

… but first, I need to come up with new content for Panels 251-252. The cast had been marveling at their new-found “Square Voice Bubbles” at that point, and it'd look ridiculous to keep those pages as they were originally done.

And since I'm running low on ‘Gratuitious close-up Deirdre pictures,’ I may actually have to come up with something else for filler. :)