Five See a Business Card
08.02.05

Hands up who didn't see that one coming.

This part is not as good as I hoped. These strips are taking longer and longer to draw (not helped by the near-greenhouse heat of this house, thanks to the lizard people who live here) and even then I seem to end up with a bunch of disconnected images and no real idea of how to link them together into a coherent narrative. But I guess that's part of what I'm experimenting with this month: working scriptless. You'll notice the cottage behind the car in panel three is just the shot of the cottage from last time, skewed to look like I've drawn it from a different angle to match the car. It almost works, too.

The car itself, incidentally, is loosely based on F.A.B. 1 from 'Thunderbirds'. I loved Thunderbirds when I was a kid. I wanted to be one of International Rescue. Last year, a movie came out which seems to have raped all my childhood memories (I refuse to see it and will continue to do so.)

And that's why I'm raping childhood memories with this, the Magnificent Five. Except mine's actually a lot better than a shitty Hollywood remake would be. At least I know it's unapologetically bad.