Strip 12: Deepest Desires

And now for something completely different! We haven’t seen Captain Silus Redge since the end of Part II, and we’ve never seen Mr. Sobek, his first mate. I wanted to convey a lot about Mr. Sobek in just a few strips to keep the pace going, and as a result, the original script for this page was massive. It’s still massive, but I had to revise over and over again to get it all to fit on the page in a somewhat visually coherent fashion. I think I still have a lot to learn about lettering, but I’m happy to be doing it myself, because it means when I get TOO WRITERLY, someone else doesn’t have to suffer trying to fit it all into a comic page, and I get a reality check that, sometimes, less is more.

- J.S. Conner

July 12th 2020