So today I finally got the final panel done for issue #17 and although I should be happy I’m kinda miffed as I meant to have had this all done and dusted some six hours ago!

Anyhoo… here’s that final panel!

(I’m feeling kinda seen with this panel.)

So(!), I ended up using a dude from issue #2 for this final panel. I don’t expect anyone to notice this and I’ll admit I was being kinda super lazy as I didn’t want to design another alien for a one off paenl but having come up with the speech balloon I went back and looked at my old issues and saw this guy in a panel is issue #2 singing and figured to bring the character back!

This issue has been a LOT more work than I expected – both with the short stories with aping artists styles and also (unexpectedly) designing the different aliens for the separate panels – and seriously, I feel stupid saying that as I look at my style and it’s just a bunch of circles and square but yeah, it was a push!

I’ll post more of the designs soon but man, so happy and excited about this issue!

Next job is going back and adding the text for the individual shorts. I’m going to go back and read some of the work that I’m taking from and try and use a similar writing style. Fingers crossed!

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. Saying I’m going to go back and do some research makes me think that this week might be spent on the final two pages and then the week will be research/writing. I’ll let you know…