Go home Judy
I love the first panel, with the line of action right through the five figures. But I like the whole page a lot. The body language is really clear, I can read the stakes of these interactions for everyone. I can still do this, but now I’m juggling a lot more compositional things and the really primal stuff that I used to be right on top of can get a bit lost.
Just one room? Pfft. Amateur.
The sadness is very concentrated in there.
Packed away out of sight.
Lottie doesn’t seem to be attracting much attention as she tours the room, picking up important bits of “intel”. Honing her skills early.
In a few years, she’ll complain that, as a teenager, her information-gathering techniques just look like loitering.
If only the local police had been willing to deputise her.
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I’m not from the UK so I know Hugo reminds me of someone but I can’t quite put my finger on it
Will someone connect the dots for me – you know, before he gets bumped off?
Sir Richard Branson?
Sir Richard was my thought as well.
Boris Johnson? It’s the hair, a bit.
He looks like Matt Berry to me, albeit in a white wig.
I’m seeing more than a touch of Noel Edmonds
The guy on the car show, and then the farm show. The big guy.
Jeremy Clarkson? I don’t think so.
Well that could be Noel Edmonds, though you need a long memory to remember his Top Gear days…
He’s the spitting image of my Uncle Steve.
THAT’S who I was thinking of… Steve!
“there is a room set aside, just for sadness” is a banger line, and also sounds like something Ryan Beckwith might say
Sounds like something Rev. Penrose might say too.
It’s now stuck back in the repertoire for future use, so now it sounds like something I might say.
Are Shelley’s eyes blue in panels 5 and 7?
Looks like sky blue, but weren’t they originally green?
Or was that Erin?
I like your old art, but I like your new art too. I know what it’s like to feel like a past self was better at something, it’s a near constant struggle. And there’s value in recognizing the great things we did before. But part of the evolution of oneself is that when some things get better, other things don’t have as much time/space as they once did. Which is what you’re saying but still, I think you’re being really hard on yourself… which you know too. Just, I think you’re doing great with your work and I hope you can see that.
Sounds like you need to do something along these lines again! I don’t think your readers are primarily judging you on compositional sophistication. If you’re having fun, we’re having fun 😁
Yes, agreed! 🙂
As a writer who has never/will never be anywhere near an “author’s retreat”, this story is especially bittersweet for me. I also love anything with Shelley and Charlotte at this age is just primo. I love how she instinctively adopts the face of a young dingbat while eavesdropping. Such a natural.
Shelley is timeless, and this is prime Lottie! Before she gets weighed down by the troubles of life. It’s a treat.
You can just declare anywhere you go to be an author’s retreat,
Who knew the Internet was an author’s retreat?
I’ve definitely met enough authors here!
Can’t remember who will be the one killed. Kinda hoping it’s the jerk with the pink sweater.
Well, looks like he’s definitely supplied everyone in the room with motive. (Except Shelley and Lottie, ofc)
The others have grudges, but Minty comes across as the most mercenary of the bunch.
She wants it all…
And she wants it now.
That was some very efficient motive provision.
Niche and perhaps weird compliment incoming: I’ve increasing respect for how our ‘steemed author writes (Eastern?) European characters. Hugo has one sentence of stylised tense/article slippages and I can hear his accent in my mind’s ear. It’s like teaching ESOL all over again.