Annotated 49-40
Yipes. Bitter stuff. And the alt text…yeah, Flo was exorcising some demons, here, which makes it strange that this was one of our true-collaboration pages. The final draft here ended up being mine, but I was just following the vibe that she was putting down in previous pages, our discussions, and the rough of this one. However, Flo is the one who wrote the scenes coming up, in which Byron, Best, and to some degree Syr’Nj model a lot more satisfaction with their lives than HR shows in his.
(John drew a lot of unimportant areas in the third panel here, knowing that HR, going on a bit in that space-eating lettering style, was going to take up some room.)
FB: There are a lot of weird floating characters at this (Lookalikes of William H) Macy’s Tanks-hitting Day Parade.
Was it ever made clear why HR feels like this?
Feel like I covered this about as well as I could in this thread.
Thank you! Good answer! At this point on first read-through I must admit I couldn’t read that out of the comic itself, and lost immersion and interest because it had gotten so vague it was impossible to know what was really at stake and why anybody did what they did. Your deus-ex-planation helps!
Glad to hear!
Kinda bad strategy here from HR, letting the Five know that he can’t actually kill them, over-godly as he may be. Which, of course, matches the theme of HR having lost significant parts of his mind.