It’s fun to finally revisit a location from a previous chapter. Pretty much every part of my process has changed since the last time I drew this place. Which was almost 2 years ago, by the way, before I ever posted a page of this comic. I wish I could get this out faster.
That is, of course, the oh-so-cleverly named World’s Best Burger Joint, where the kids hung out way back in the first chapter. Kinda fun to return to a location 2 years later, creatively. I feel like things are vastly different now than they were when I was drawing those pages, oh so long ago. Hopefully better.
So, I came up with this Busta Rhymes gag about a year and a half ago, now. And this is probably a really dumb thing that’s just me. But when I’m reading a story like this, in the future, and people just happen to reference something from my lifetime, in spite of the 300 years …
Let’s be honest, Jac is basically me here. I have conflicting ideas about repeating images in comics. It certainly saves time. I lost a lot of time the week I was working on this, and copying some heads out of previous pages and repeating some things on this one helped me get back on track. …
Oh, man. Due to moving house… again… this page was in production for over 2 weeks. When I’m focused, I can usually produce a page of Closed Galaxy in 3-4 days. When I’m more relaxed about it, I take a week. Working on the same page this long just sucked the life out of it. …
Maybe not the best word balloon placement there. Ah, well. I think there may be more exposition on this page than on all 71 that preceded it. This is the page I did a lot of live on youtube in January. The archives were immediately assailed with copyright warnings due to the music, so I …
I wanted my city to be split into districts, but then I remembered The Hunger Games exists, so… precincts. Thanks Hunger Games.
We are back! Sorry it took so long. But we’re hitting the ground running. Su already causin’ trouble on page 1! That’s bang for your buck. This one’s going to move faster than previous chapters. Glad you’re still with me. See you next week.
