Finished this page late, late, late last night, but was just too tired to upload it then ^^;

YAY! Got to try out some new stuff on this page. I really like how the first panel came out with the silhouettes of the bandits. I also love how calm the bottom left panel with Ray is, and I was happy with how I kept the background simple. The fourth panel’s simplicity almost comes off as lazy though… -.-

I was pleased with how the small inkings of the coyotes came out and I was fairly confident that they would be hard to read if there was a background. So instead of simplifying the background I was like, “Screw it! Just get rid of the background!” I’m still not convinced it was the best decision, but at least I was able to experiment with a new idea 😀

Oh! And this is my first “meanwhile” blurb. I’ve definitely cut away for “meanwhile’s” before in the comic, but I’ve always tried to stay away from narration-esque, worded statements like “later that same night”, “elsewhere”, and the like. It’s not that I dislike that stuff, I’ve just never really used it (kinda like how my thought bubbles are used fairly sparingly, and I even question those when I do them…). Anyways, thought I could do “meanwhile” slightly different instead of just within a word box, so I came up with stretching it across the page between panels (almost more like a big sound effect).

Fun side note: I just realized that I didn’t draw sound effects for Dayton running. In my thumbnail rough sketch of the page I drew that panel with the “TMP” sound effect multiple times. I’m content with them not being there, but I should practice my onomatopoeia a little more often than I currently do.

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