Look at the SIZE of that thing!

Observe dear reader, the importance of the arrangement of your dialogue bubbles. I get confused myself looking at this page. (In the west, we read left to right).

But on this page? Well let's just say that having learned all of the rules and theory of comic creation at an mere 9 years old - child prodigy you see? - I felt it was only right that I should break them:

"Yeah we've had it unless!"

Oh I don't know... Dear oh dear oh dear. I weep for my teachers. Also, these non-sequiturs are a bit like the "I repeat!" bit seen in Part 1. Obviously it should be:
"Yeah, we've had it, unless..."

At least I put a bloody question mark after the second line. Top marks for that.

But you know, if I'd ever given more than a second's thought to how each page would be done - in advance, it'd be a pretty dull comic.

Here's a question for you:
When you were in school and your English teacher advised you to "work out the essay in rough outline first, on paper"; did you ever actually do that? Be honest now. Or, did you just plough-in, making it up as you went along? Yep, I even ploughed-straight-in in my Leaving Certificate examination English Essay. Those are the exams that decide the rest of your life in Ireland.

Idiot.

Art Notes

The bottom panel is based hook, line and sinker on Howard Chaykin's full-page panel in the Marvel adaptation which worked incredibly well. So ripe for ripping-off then! Also, check out the panel gutter scrawled from left to right. As always: no ruler - and in this case I seem to have commenced the scrawl without anticipating Luke's big heroic dimply chin getting in the way. Or - was it intentional?

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