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“Fly my pretties! Fly!” Also, insert your favorite Monarch joke a la Venture Bros.
I’m finally done drawing crowds and crowds of people. Yay! So, I decided it would be great fun to do a mob of police AND a steam powered armored vehicle from lots of angles. A.K.A. The Crowd Crusher. This page took forever (relative to the others). It was worth it.
Original Script
Jane and Lewis walk around an armored tank wedged in the alley. SHERIFF Motions to a pair of guards wearing wings. Duggin! Cote! Follow those two to their destination. Then bring them in and report to me. SHERIFF To his 2nd in command Right. Let us get this over with. OFFICER Speaking into a tube All sections advance!
*Sigh* Jane does not have a firm grip on the little felon. Considering how slippery he is, this is probably an unfortunate oversight. 🙁
As to crowdscenes, This page shows how the exhausting practice has paid off. This comic’s art has always been good–this is exceptional. 🙂
Thanks, Delta. I do like to challenge myself and the next few pages are my new favorites. Lewis may have quick wits and a sharp blade, but Jane still has speed, strength and invulnerability on her side. For now.
Well, I feel special for no real reason at all. First time I’ve seen my family name used in a comic of any kind though. “Cote” is rare on the west coast, pretty common back east.
It will be interesting if the lad gives them all the slip. Enjoying this story quite a bit.
Cool! And, officer Cote is obviously the more capable of the two bat-men. He’s the one with darker skin. They make another appearance later.
In your author comment I initially read “armored vehicle from Los Angeles” — !! Meanwhile the logo on the Crowd Crusher itself is pretty close to “CCCP”….
Don’t give the LAPD any ideas, I’m sure they already have enough tanks.
CCPD / CCCP / USSR. Not intentional, but I still thought it was funny and sadly appropriate.
Love the angles, Andy. Ain’t perspective fun?
And the Crowd Cru-er, “Protector” is awesome. It reminds me of the crowd scoopers in Soylent Green.
Perspective is Satan’s idea of a cruel joke. It suckers you in with promises of beautiful things but all you get is suffering and pain. 😉
I have not watched all of Soylent Green, yet. But, I did suffer through Zardoz, so that should count for something, right?
It’s people! Soylent Green is made out of people! They’re making our food out of people!
Sorry, sorry…
You know, there’s something cruel about a riot police with barbs on their clubs. That and the death-mobile they’ve rolled out for the occasion tells me what comes next won’t be pretty. At least Jane got away, though I feel she may be hurtling head-first into something sinister.
Whoa, SPOILERS!
Not only are the riot police spiked and excited to go, the sheriff is coldly blasé about cracking down on angry citizens. They’ve got nothin’ on South Korean riot police.
Soylent Green is actually a good movie, with Charlton Heston playing against type. Plus, the ending made me cry (not that ending).
Hope they aren’t planning to follow them in that tank. Not exactly stealthy, y’know.
It’s covered in stealth iron, like an armored ninja. How would they see it coming? Hear it a mile away, yes.
So they’ve got shields and truncheons and flintlock sidearms and what appears to be sabres…nice detail on the pigs’ equipment! They may be hired goons, but they’re well-stocked for battle.