Com'c #164

Maybe voting won't be so bad after all.

Commentary

I told you you could expect to see those buildings again!

The relative scales in panel one should not be seen as entirely literal, because I was limited by low resolution. I had less than 8x16 pixels to work with to represent a character's full body. (Similarly, the window designers must have been insane, but I'm blaming that one on past me. I might adjust that next time the buildings show up.)

(I did make one change to the buildings themselves. The rightmost of the foreground buildings is now one or two (one before "zooming" relative to #86) pixels more to the left. In #86, the edge of the building was lining up with a building further back, making it look like they were wall-to-wall and messing up the foreground/background "border".)

The use of the establishing shot was part of why I wound up using captions rather than thought bubbles, although I'd already considered the idea. I personally think it looks much neater than thought bubbles do (and is a lot easier to make), especially in a str'p with only one character.

The scar

That scar makes Summer the second* Com'c character who is asymmetrical in face view, after Ernie, but the first of the asymmetrical characters we've seen both sides of.

Don't worry, the scar was not caused by the events of this storyline.

* Or third, depending on whether you count TQ Cervelle. As it is, I have no idea how to portray TQ's (own) left side while he's wearing his cap, but I know it can't be entirely symmetrical.

Cut lines

Panel one was originally going to be the following, although flow and the decision to use the establishing shot led to the gag being cut. I don't regret this decision, as it improved the end result, but here it is anyway:

Summer: Well, that was the weirdest way I've ever been fired.

Summer: Wait.

Summer: No, the second weirdest.

(I had no intention of elaborating.)

Also cut was this, to be placed after the second thought caption:

Summer: (Ow, maybe I should've accepted the lift.)

And finally...

Pausing for thought inside a thought caption is rather strange.