This was my shot at doing a single panel gag with Zortic. It could work, but I finally realized that Zortic works better with longer story arcs.
A New Adventure
This was essentially the equivalent of the final tableau of most series that always end with everyone laughing. Remember Police Squad? (RIP Leslie Nielsen)
A little bit contrived way to get Zoie out of her service, but I was eager to move on. I really intended to use Captain Cutter more, but it just didn’t work out. But don’t worry, he will be reappearing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never really did figure out how or why Red got up into that drapery. But it made for a nice dramatic surprise.
Here’s where I start bringing in some of the obscure references. The old Errol Flynn movie Seahawks is one of my favorites and was the inspiration for this fight.
I really wanted to explore alternate layouts that would read right without having to rely on directional arrows and tricks like that. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.