Tonight we've got a two-fer.
In page seventeen, I "name check" Mark Verheiden. Name checking is when you drop the name of a friend in your story. I do it all the time. Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's blatant. Either way, it's fun, and a nice way to appreciate the people who are the wind beneath my wings, to steal a phrase from a Bette Midler song. That's something I never thought I'd do.
Mark Verheiden, of course, is the absurdly-talented writer and producer of such things as the good seasons of Smallville and the best frakkin' show on television, Battlestar Galactica. And, like everyone else on the planet, he's got a blog. Check it out, it's good stuff.
Then, I did page 18, which I considered the "easy page" of the book. It was actually one of the discarded endings to issue two, where Mark would fly Abby up to watch the fireworks on New Year's Eve. I liked the scene, but it didn't work for the story. Here, it worked nicely.
The fireworks ar all from photos, and there was no perspective to really worry about. I thought it'd be easy. The operative word being thought.
Turns out when you write seven panels of two characters flying, it starts to get boring visually. So I kept moving the characters around, and in to new and different, and much more challenging to draw, positions. I'm pretty happy with the end result, but it certainly wasn't the gimme that I thought it might be.
With this, I have six pages left to draw. Hopefully I can get at least one more drawn before I leave for the Licensing Show on Monday, which will put me in good shape to wrap things up by the end of the month. That's my plan at least.