Hey, this time, I actually managed to upload in faster wifi style. It all depends on me having the pages finished on or shortly before a scheduled Eureka trip. Today's the monthly poetry reading. With or without new pages, I'm still here.

What can I say? I'm drawing and coloring them as fast as I can as the story rushes toward another battle, even while occasionally experimenting with new coloring techniques. I particularly like the closeups of Molly and Rupert in the water, and the two half-page panels at the top of 186 and bottom of 188.

Big landscape backgrounds are so much fun, and look nice, too. Sometimes I have fantasies of writing a short comic with instructions on how to put backgrounds together with figures. It really isn't hard to build an outdoor scene. If anyone's interested, let me know.

Buildings are a different issue, not quite as much fun and a bit trickier, but a lot of stuff happens in rooms. I was just watching the anime Le Chevalier D'Eon, which takes place at Versailles. Talk about spectacular rooms! I don't think Hugo's archipelego kingdom has anything that fancy, but still, I imagine the palace is pretty special.