AGH! It’s done!!

It’s been a long week and after several extra hours this week’s page is done. Just over the course of this week, this page was rewritten at least thrice before landing on this version. I had a hard time deciding on what was actually gonna happen on this page.

I also had an unusually difficult time coming up with appropriate dialogue for this page, but I’m mostly content with the finished script. Just for those of you who actually read my comments, in the middle 4 panels there was actually a fourth word bubble right between the third and fourth panel (the only panels that do not have a word bubble anymore). It was one of the guards merely saying “Well first let’s find a new lantern.” Yeah. Kinda lame. That’s mostly why it was cut, that and I wanted a “silent” panel without a word bubble before the monk pops his head out the door. It wasn’t cut till halfway through inking the page, so it really was a last second decision to leave out.

Also after two pages using a really odd layout we’re back to a more static, normal layout. Well…kinda at least. I always strive to make each page unique or new in some way. For this page I was really interested in how the four middle, tall panels extend behind the other panels.