Originally, Tico was gonna give a lot more exposition at this point. This was when Cassie had a boyfriend still, in the script. He’d be the one who would come in and intervene with Tico, so Cass and Cassie could get away. When I decided to write out the boyfriend a few weeks back (hence the little break I had to take), I also decided to write out the exposition Tico would give to him. Funny enough, at this point, I didn’t have a whole lot of use for Tico, other than being another one of her former customers, and of course one more person who wanted to collect the bounty. That’s when I decided to make him a cop. Making him a cop would help demonstrate the corruption of the law as explained in the “Profiles” page, which is exactly what i wanted to set up while still in the beginning of the story. So in the end, it kind of all fell into place quite nicely.

I think I’ve finally landed on the aesthetic look the novel is gonna have for it’s remainder. Specifically, the coloring and shading. Page 18 and 19 are the ones I’m referring to. They both include a much more consistent, precise and limited color pallet. Also the shading has also sorta fallen into it’s own. Over time both aspects will of course continue to improve, as things tend to do (just flip back to page 3 to see what I’m talking about). I’m really excited about how this story is shaping up.