Last night I finished page nineteen, so I've got just five pages left. If I'm good, and manage to channel a little bit of the Speed Force, I might even be able to get page twenty done before I leave for New York City.
This page turned out pretty well. It's split between a Mark and Abby scene and a Crusader and Darkblade scene, and both are fairly funny. With this page, Jerry and Joanne Spencer leave the book, never to be seen again… for the rest of the issue. And one of the sub-jokes in the superhero part came about just because I needed them on ground level for the punchline. I wound up situating them on the docks outside of town, and that inspired me for the first joke. You'll have to trust me that it's funny, as it's not the scene that I posted.
As I wind down to the end of the series, I'm one page short of the 24 that I need. Usually at this point I have everything completely locked in. This time there's one scene that I need to extend. It'll work out fine, but it's different problem to have, going from too much story to not enough.
