December Sun – A Web Comic

Very late with this one, but I’ll try to be better with the next few.  Some notes:

1) Panel 1 features the “obvious twins” fleeing the tank.

2) Panels 2 on feature one of my favorite, yet completely implausible, features of comic books that I read in the 1980′s, namely Chris Claremont stories, and that is characters who have ridiculously overly-verbose internal dialogs.  I personally love this in a comic though, as it pads out a story so much more and instead of just flipping through panel after panel of action, this is a way that you get an internal narrative that, although completely unrealistic, helps make the story so much more substantial (Well, in Claremont’s “Uncanny X-Men” maybe.  Not really here.  In fact, regarding that excessive dialog…)

3) I added overly-unnecessarily dialog into the last panel to cover up some flaws on the right of the page.  In fact, if you look at the upper right of the building, you’ll see a partially-hidden “PS”, which is my note when drawing/inking that I don’t care anymore and that I’ll just fix up the area with PhotoShop.  I ironically missed this one after doing the gradient half-tone, so I just left the PS there and added some marks to make it look like an explosion or something (this is the all-out-completely implausible page, but who cares?)

I also went a little bit overboard with the halftone in that last panel.  Oh, and did you pick up the not-too-subtle ‘Superman’ reference on the page?  Again, this issue is more tongue-in-cheek and more just having fun with the story and the characters.  Although I consider it “cannon” in the saga, its just a little more lightweight this time around.