Annotated 49-25
I’ve done my best to fix the lettering issues that plagued a few of these pages (this one, 20, and especially 23). Flo was generally a fine letterer, but the roughness of the type placement on those pages always bugged me a little.
From the script: the HR shown here “looks like what someone might draw if they got a detailed description of the original HR, but no pictures.” It’s hard to be “accurately inaccurate” about HR, since even before he started eating Cyberian beasts, he was still all over the place as a character—seemingly penitent about his sins one moment, murdering an employee the next. But I think John’s perfectly “off” visual design here and the dialogue gets the job done.
The script on this version of the Five: “Emotionally, they look like refugees getting their picture taken for a relief organization, as if they’re about to plead for their very existence, which they are.”
Was HR’s inconsistent characterization an intentional choice on your part? Or did it just kind of happen?
Either way, I think it was a great way to portray an unstable but charismatic man.
Kind of in-between, I’d say! It was not part of our plan at the start, but as the story grew, so did our ideas about HR and his relationship with Carol. We definitely decided to give him those variations when we figured out chapters 25-30.
The Five … are alive! Stephanie!!!
“Say something blasphemous.”
I love Syr’Nj. I just do. Sorry.
Her words are utter perfection.
It’s like HR asked DALL-E for an image of his former self.
Right?
So creeeepy