3-19 A Dangerous Man
Friday, October 5th, 2007Due to popular demand, we’ve decided to continue our commentary on Penance. Thanks to everyone who gave us your feedback! We’re going to comment on each page on the following Friday, so if you click back a page you can read our discussion of last week’s Penance. And next week you’ll see something else posted here. Enjoy!
– Commentary –
J.D.: Interesting story about this page. I finished the last page in the morning of September 27th. I took a nap, and then came back a few hours later to start work on the following page. Only to discover that our graphics tablet had died while I slept. Which meant we had to order one and hope that it would arrive in time for us to put up the second page after our hiatus on time.
Craig: That was gut-wrenching. I mean, we were on hiatus for more than a year, and the second page we put up after returning was in danger of being late.
J.D.: Through no fault of our own!
Craig: Even so. I was very happy when the tablet arrived the following Wednesday — just enough time for you to do the flats and shading for this week’s Penance.
J.D.: That worked out well.
Craig: I drew inspiration for Rex’s pose in panel 4 from the cover of the Blind Guardian album Nightfall in Middle-Earth. It’s one of my favorite albums and great to listen to when working on Penance.
J.D.: Or walking to the grocery store.
Craig: I noticed you developed the character to the right of Rex a bit more than I did in my pencils. Tell me about him.
J.D.: As I was working on him, and looking at the soft pencils that you had done, he kind of began to look like a half-breed whose one parent was an archon and the other was something akin to a centaur. Therefore, he has a mane of hair that extends onto his wings instead of feathers. And his boots cover hooves rather than feet.
Craig: That’s really cool. One of the things I love about working with you is that I sometimes get as surprised as the readers when a new page of Penance goes up. :) For example, here’s a before and after. The left picture is the pencils that I delivered to J.D., and the right picture is what she made out of it. Cool, huh?
 
Craig: My pencils aren’t usually that sketchy, are they?
J.D.: It depends on what you’re drawing. Primary characters tend to come out pretty clearly. Background figures — well, I have a lot of latitude with them, let’s just put it that way.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Wow, 0K, purple eyes. I guess that means “Rex Caligo is in my head right now.”
Soooooo cool that you guys are making new episodes, I love ’em.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Yay for commentary! 🙂
October 5th, 2007 at 5:45 am
+ The different shaped eyes in panel 3 was a nice touch. And the scenery in the last panel is very good.
– The dialog in the first panel is rather cheesy.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Gotta love that body under his table, sure shows the dark side of Rex. 🙂
October 5th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
To repeat: Yay for commentary!
On another note, Great joerb, guys!
October 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Hmm…this could get really interesting, remembering from 3-16 (a few pages back) that Ignatius and Marcus were following her. The book of power, the dead body(/ies?), the “interesting” folk in the main room under Rex’s control… This could get very interesting, indeed.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
And the person cleaning the bloodied sword from what looks like a fresh kill…
So glowing purple eyes means Rex control. Does this make Rex something like an uber-Goa’uld?
October 8th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Asschen Shukar – I think that other table has a body under it, too.
This is making me curious… are all of these half-breeds on board with Rex, or is he successfully conning them.
-DD
October 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I don’t think there would be much ‘conning’ involved: just being of the position that they have a right to live would be enough.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:39 am
True, there is a hand there and for that guy cleaning his sword… Looks like a fallen angel or something like that to me, black wings and there are like… falling appart.
And for Rex, i think he controls/charmed them somehow so they only see his ‘good’ side.
Really curious now what the comment is gonna be Friday. 🙂