winter of crows - page 2 (waking up to a phone call) 



right off the bat we something different. instead of amorphous panels with indeterminate edges we have actual panel edges, actual gutters, and black filling the gutter spacing? what? what happened here? i wish i could tell you. i'm not sure why i decided to do this, but i did. it is, generally, successful as a strategy; indeed, it almost works with this comic. if it only had been drawn by someone with some talent.

alas.

so we start with an exterior shot of the afton apartments . . . the first of its kind, i think, and not a very good one. i believe it was done out of my head, which should learn me, i suppose. that thing on the wall next to nips' bed is meant to be a picture or a poster of some sort; if i actually had a real one in mind, it is certainly unrecognizable in this form. the clock rings! i like that; i don't know if i was inspired by something--probably japanese--or if i came up with that on my own, but, except for crudeness, i might do it today.

of course this is pre-no-call list days; nips expects a telemarketer.

i used to have an alarm clock with a smiley face like that when i was a child. eventually it stopped working, and i tried to fix it, but did not succeed. i felt rather badly about it, because it lay there in pieces and kept smiling at me.

at the bottom, i have a disclaimer . . . my cowardice again. what if someone read it and got mad? hah!

 

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