Annotated 33-16
Props to John for drawing all these guys and Flo for tagging them. So, here’s the start of that story…
It was 2012, and I was joining up with some cartoonists and other nerds to help plan a Washington, D.C. convention where Guilded Age would sell its wares for several years. One of the planners had a DeLorean, the car featured in the Back to the Future movies, and we spent some time checking it out on the lot. My own appearance, however, also gathered a fair bit of attention.
“You look like hell,” said Janice, then known to me as a convention planner and significant other of my old friend, Greg. She was a native of the D.C. area, and Greg was not, meaning she was on her own for this event. She spoke with affection and not a bit of concern, and her observation was true enough. The bags under my eyes showed the 1,500 or so miles I’d driven in the last 48 hours. But I smiled.
Flo was there too, to give me a warm hug. I had earned it, even if the work of the last two days had been spent addressing a problem I myself had partly caused.
To be continued…
I can’t help seeing that first inset panel as a giant window, in which a Gulliver-sized Byron looks out upon a crowd of Lilliputian adventurers….
This. Exactly this. XD
Or some derpy regime poster that was done when he wasn’t paying attention.
My vote is for magick Jumbotron – panel, what panel? Unless you mean a flat panel.
Yes. Every single time.
And I just noticed that E-Merl is not wearing his hat. Something significant must have happened…
I was also going to comment that the first panel almost makes Byron look like a giant, but looking at it a little more the opening into a sudden crowd reminds me of Life of Brian, that scene where he opens his window and all the people who started following him the day before turn out to have found his house. Only a little, mind, but the Life of Byron pun is now sitting there in front of me and I couldn’t possibly let it go to waste.
“You’re all individuals!”
»YES, WE’RE ALL INDIVIDUALS!« (… ‘I’m not an individual’)