Poor disgraced Deputy Duggin. I sure hope Deputy Cote can do better.
Wait! No I don’t.
Something I should have played up more in the story is the vertical class system. In this world, if you’re poor you live mostly on the ground dodging crap richer folk drop off their airships, like that toy parachute on the previous page. One form of passive protest is to string up clothes lines everywhere.
Actually, any place where low-income people live in tall, closely spaced buildings, they string clotheslines between the buildings.
If you wish to avoid a bird, go indoors. Say, speaking of birds. why isn’t Harriet making her presence–and beak–felt?
My guess is that a number of these clotheslines are made out of metal cable. Slows the pursuit of justice down considerably.
Duggin & Cote? I feel like I should know those names. Cameos?
Your action pages are so great, Andy. The sword sweep, and those last three panels (the first panel’s a doozy, too!). I love the three point perspective on panel four-so much going on, and the Shadow of the Bat on the door in the last panel.
“Staff Entrance?” Restaurant? Library? Workhouse? Sporting Goods store? What is it?
No cameos here, but there will be some on the next page. Duggin and Cote came from a random name generator.
This page was a real pain, so I’m pleased it worked out. I ended up modeling an alleyway with basic 3D shapes to get those last three panels right. The next page was even harder.
Speaking of strings, did you know kite flying is illegal in Pakistan? Due to the popularity of kite fighting there have been deaths and serious injuries from people running into discarded strings coated in glass shards, metal blades and garotted on metal cords. 🙁
Harriet is a lover, not a fighter. Mostly she tends to hide when there are strangers around.
I’m still in awe that their wings are holding them up. The sweep through the city felt so fast yet I know it probably took painstakingly long to draw. Kudos. The flow is moving especially well in this chapter.
That’s why I love the old Victorian and Edwardian era sci-fi. A lot of it is based on what people 100 years ago dreamed they could do more than what was physically practical. Like wings that work, vacations in Antarctica, mobile houses on train cars, underwater croquet, and sending messages inside cannon balls. 🙂
i wonder if the underside of this city is anything like as bad as that of victorian london. blue ruin. excess babies being ‘overlain’. press gangs. grueling factory work with no thought at all of safety. ubiquitous child labor. ‘orphanages’ selling children to brothels. laudanum used as an infant pacifier. if so, jane may have quite an education coming not even considering the cops.
Not quite that bad, it is a bright and shiny future after all. But, things aren’t great either. We’ll have to see if Jane is paying attention.
Snicker. Such fun writing dumb cops, isn’t it?
They are pretty bumbling, but I couldn’t let our protagonist get caught right away. The second airborne officer is a bit more tenacious.
That whole bit with the clotheslines being a form of protest is a really clever touch! I like the subtle bits of worldbuilding in this comic.
Aww, thank you. Half the stuff in this world gets invented while it’s being drawn. Or, “I wish I’d thought of that when I was writing the script.” 🙂
You make that sound like it’s a BAD thing……. ^^