A little stupid, but the second panel turned out so nicely that I have no qualms. Anyway, I think it’s an important bit of character building for Eugene (I don’t think it’s come up yet, but yes that tiger’s name is Eugene).

I don’t really know what to say about this. I figured a Redwall strip or two was inevitable, but I didn’t really have a clue what it would look like until this just happened. 

I spent an ungodly amount of time working on this, but the results are a little more mediocre than I would’ve liked. The architecture looks okay, but as I rendered the animals I began to understand why Christopher denise and so many other Redwall illustrators work in vibrant color.

I’ve never really understood the appeal of classical chamber music, to the extent that Dawkins lost points in my book when he mentioned that the perfection of a Mozart string quartet doesn’t require the existence of god. There’s a certain tidiness to that sort of music, but it’s so awkwardly bloodless and harmonically threadbare.

I’m not sure how good I feel about the differences in contrast between the first panel and the second two. I can rationalize that it makes sense, considering our rodent narrator is peeking out of a hole in panel one, but I think it makes the strip look a little less cohesive.

I love this story; there’s something special about that brand of humor that requires a bit of extra thinking or background knowledge to understand, but when you boil it down it’s just dick joke or something similar.

Also, my mom ‘getting her macabre on’ is a Thing. It’s startling how much set up she is willing to go through to explain who a person is, and how I peripherally know them, just so she can tell me that they have cancer. When my mom visited my brother Nathan in Rome (he was studying architecture) his fellow students noticed this tendency and made no small amount of jokes about it. The most common, of course, was simply “There was this little boy… and then he died”.

This one is a little silly and self-indulgent. I know this because a friend saw the first two panels and barely managed to laugh the words “I hate you”.