Cass finally feels “complete” to me. The character has evolved through a wild journey and tough situations both life-threatening and banal, none of it by her own agency. She didn’t want this form and she certainly didn’t want to go[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Usually when a long amount of time passes between scenes on the same page I add in a good amount of blank space or, as a last resort, slap on a caption box. This page was too crowded for either[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The entire premise of UTC was designed around these two characters’ different attitudes toward what’s happened to them. Yet they get so few scenes alone together that when the chance to write a conversation like this comes up, it feels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish I had left more room for the dialogue in panels 2 and 3. When laying out this page, I thought I’d be clever by repeating the exact same five panels for the top and bottom halves, as Cass[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the start, this story was bound to veer into “A Very Special Episode” territory. I’ve been awkwardly dancing around the topic of discrimination by using a fantasy element instead of showing real-world racism. Although his mutation obscures it, Noah[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…