In the original, Sal arrives in Washington, D.C., by knocking down some journalists and smashing a video camera’s VCR tape. Lying awake at night, I thought, fuck no, that’s not how Sal makes an entrance. This is how Sal makes an entrance. Maximum damage. Explosions everywhere. Kablooey. She means business. That’s basically the conceit of this redrawing exercise boiled down to its basics — instead of drawing how they DID do something, I draw how they WOULD do something. My concept of the characters has kind of evolved in the past nigh-twenty years. Have this 4:30am page.
Also I needed some SEMME agents who would be potentially disposable and don’t need to show up later, so have some new ones. As with most of SEMME’s crowd filler, they are people I know, though I have taken care to draw them several years younger.
i may be taking the chapter title too literally
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This is more over-the-top than Nextwave.
THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!
She’s here to kick ass and chew scenery.
And she just blew up all the scenery.
Wait, wait…
Danielle… Jeph… Joel….
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[unless there’s a different one, I am not sure Spike is recognizeable anymore w/o the nose ring/mohawk]
[[that seems like a good George R.R. Martin-esque Kickstarter backer incentive, tho–“GET KILLED IN A WALKY COMIC FOR $$$”]]
Yeah, I got that one mostly by process of elimination.
I know I’m too late to likely ever get a reply, but what are you talking about? I recognize Jeph as a webcomic artist name, but the others aren’t ringing bells.
Oh, wait, Girls with Slingshots, should’ve picked up on that one, and Hijinks Ensue, which I also used to read. I have an excuse for Spike, though, if it’s the Templar, Az. one, as I didn’t even previously read that comic.
None of those four agents in panel 1 really look like the webcomic artists I think of when I see those names, but I also don’t know what any of them looked like when they were younger. At least that helps the plausible deniability if any of them complain about getting mind-controlled and blown up in their one cameo.
That would be really cool if she wasn’t about to kill at least over 100 Innocent people
Indeed. That’s a Sal entrance.
Wait, are you redoing the entirety of Year Zero? I just realized that doesn’t just cover the action part, there are a couple more arcs under that subtitle on the Joyce and Walky site. Are you redrawing all those too? If so, I’m pretty surprised. If not, never mind then lol
Just to the end of the first arc, after the battle and everyone goes home.
I find it particularly disturbing that, while I clearly see four SEMME members in panel 1, I only see one obvious corpse in panel 3. I keep wondering what happened to the other three. And then I wonder if those other two head shaped objects that don’t seem particularly attached to anything are supposed to be part of the answer.
Willis, if you wanted to make this panel really macabre and disturbing – you succeeded. I fear my dreams tonight.
I only counted one head-shaped object.
Dude, if you keep cranking up the awesome on these strips like this, we’re gonna have to make you redraw the whole thing.
Cool girls don’t look at explosions !
Go Sal, there is absolutely nothing wrong with going on such murderous rampage, and you will never come to regret it.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “Already gonna kill off all my 15-years-ago friends, better find some current friends to kill off here.”
Are you redrawing certain story arcs after this?
Nope.
we’ll see…
_instead of drawing how they DID do something, I draw how they WOULD do something. My concept of the characters has kind of evolved in the past nigh-twenty years_
Maybe you can stop eating that Turkish-Delight, anytime you want?
Great Page. Thanks
Oh my god, she’s insane…
DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!
This gives me major DragonBall Z vibes, and I love it. For someone who hates crosshatching, you’re actually really good at it here.