The title is a callback to page XLI, where Demetrius first revealed that Cass’ DNA was locked. The first visual metaphor I tried out in the script was a roll-up window shade. That functions a little closer to Cass’ strategy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jen could star in her own spinoff series and it would probably still involve too much plot for one comic. I normally resist dropping so much exposition all at once. A lot of things happen off-panel and between chapters that[…]↓ 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…