Entitlement 2-3
Here’s the high-rez version of this page.
I know how this looks, but I swear, I had no idea that Erica was going to become the regular Squirrel Girl artist when I wrote the squirrel roadkill joke. Her employment on the series was still several years away.
This was the only two-page spread we put into the printed volumes, partly because Phil let it be known that it was a royal pain to format. He also had some observations about Sundar and Rendar’s names, worth sharing here:
The fun story behind the naming of Sundar and Rendar: T had some other sort of name for the guy there at first, but I renamed him to Sundar so he could have a brother named Rendar. Rendar was the name of this imaginary beast in the TV studio back in my high school days, a horrible monster who came about when video files had to be rendered at length. There was like, a voice… that went with it. Maybe you had to be there.
But their names were in tribute to the time I spent there.
So an interesting bit of linking happens. If you go to the previous page, entitlement-1, you can’t get back to this one because it doesn’t have the proper link to this one.
That sort of weird thing has been happening kind of randomly since the reruns began. Sometimes it’s a caching issue, this time it seems it isn’t.
And the comment form never saves my name…
What is this? Text for ants?
Considering all the people Byron has slayed over the years why should a squirrel concern him?
I know a lot of people who get upset when a dog dies in the movie (some won’t even watch the movie). But if a human gets killed… meh, no big thing.
I always thought Rendar the Renderer was the best name in the entire comic, so the change is worth it.
Gravedust Deserthammer
Joins the battle!
But yeah, it is a pretty good name.
It seems Rendar got his inspiration from Gyro Gearloose’s fire-cracker-powered buggy:
– http://duckcomicsrevue.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-think-box-bollix.html
Rendar and Sundar Heterodyne?