Page Commentary No. 285

Gunwild: Oh man I almost missed the lil' guys enjoying their party on the table there. I think I remember being very excited when we had that idea, and I was right to be.

Psu: Pfft, I forgot them too. You know... I think a lot of stories skip over the part where everyone is celebrating the heroes and we're talking about the friends we met along the way. It's because the story is over! So maybe we're lucky that we had a "friends we met along the way" scene as the middle of our journey.

Gunwild: If you zoom in one of the doggos is wearing a beret I think.

Psu: That means they're fancy. I'm not sure I can pull off a beret.

Gunwild: You've got to stop comparing your set of abilities to Osamu Tezuka.

Psu: Anyway, I like a lot about this scene. It's nice to see some old friends, even if they were brief acquaintances. I like how we just BARELY miss Russ getting to express what serving with the captain has meant to him. And I like the ominous feeling at the end. Even though I think, if we did our job's right, the audience should be able to guess who the host is at this point. Just like Maddy does.

Gunwild: You figure it's hard to tap someone on the shoulder with a dagger-sharp metal finger? Or rather, that it's a bit too easy to get their attention that way?

Psu: You take one damage to your HP from a shoulder tap like that... I admit I didn't think about facilitating a finger tap when I designed her claws. She probably has a different set of hands for other kinds of entertaining guests.

Gunwild: We could probably take that to all kinds of startling sci-fi conclusions, but I mean wouldn't it be neat just to have a hand that can do tricky handshakes correctly 100% of the time?

Psu: I think Doctor Botz has those. Hey... Botz and Kreuz kinda have the same claws... Maybe there's some galaxy wide supplier of these villainy metal claws.

Gunwild: We'd better stop or this is going to turn into another X-Men digression where I talk about how that's kind of Lady Deathstrike's origin story.

Psu: If anything, we could always steal more X-men ideas. They seem successful, right?

Gunwild: That all depends on what some suit at Disney decides their profit potential is over the next five years, I'm sure.

Psu: That's a little cynical. Let's instead talk about how the doggos have a salsa bowl they can literally bathe in.

Gunwild: Oh man that's so unsanitary, not to mention it'd probably hurt!

Psu: One more note before we go, I didn't really have a design sheet for Maddy's dress in this chapter. It would've been a good idea though. It would've helped me avoid having to redraw that bottom left panel 3 times because I kept forgetting different details.

Gunwild: Left or right handedness of the dress details, I imagine?

Psu: The entire shape of the dress! In fact, I'm looking at it now and I'm still sure I got it wrong.

Gunwild: Super high-tech clothes can change between panels. That's canon, everybody count that as canon.