Anyway, here's today's webcomic:
I knew Sally Mander was dying this issue, along with Razorfish. My plan was to have them die in the middle of the massive melee, but that didn't time out right. So their deaths got pushed back to these pages. Originally, I was going to have Sally die from shrapnel and Razorfish die trying to avenge her, but Boolah suggested we reverse it, which I immediately was like, Yeah, that makes much more sense. I changed up the scene a little, adding the part where Razorfish throws himself on top of Sally to protect her from the Vertionce's explosion, killing himself in the process. Then Boolah wrote a really nice bit of dialogue on the previous page where a grieving Sally holds a dead Razorfish in her arms and talks of regret and unspoken feelings, which I forgot to add because I'm still getting used to this razzinfrazzin digital lettering (don't worry, the dialogue is restored in the print version). In Boolah's script, Sally is then simply and unceremoniously decapitated on this page by the Vertionce. Which is a great idea, because it continues to drive home what a horrible, unfeeling monster the Vertionce is, to violently strike down a grieving, defenseless woman. Unfortunately, I didn't think it jived with the Vertionce's character. To me, the Vertionce wouldn't waste his time on something like that, especially after he's already been dragged, literally, to the Moon and back. So I added the panel on the previous page where Sally attacks the Vertionce, and then the panel on this page where he nonchalantly executes her in pretty much the same manner as he did El Exclamation Point 2! (In my mind he wouldn't waste swinging his sword on so minor an enemy). I also added the panel where Sally's dead body lands on top of Razorfish's dead body as a way of (sorta kinda) reuniting them in death.
Man, we're just killin' people left and right, aren't we? Yeesh.
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