Another strip where a lot had to happen in not a lot of space. That car crash scene in the background is practically squished into oblivion. Maybe I should've stretched this out into two strips instead, but I really liked the idea of the three characters all meeting together in one strip.
The storyline is starting to come to a head! This is a very dialogue-heavy one, and a claustrophobic one to draw because of how much information had to be conveyed in it. If you thought it was hard to draw a large-scale car crash in one big panel two strips ago, imagine drawing the same crash on a tiny TV screen in the second panel here. I can't even tell if it came out coherently. If I were to do this one again, I would have made the edges of the TV screen the walls of the panel itself, instead of showing them within the panel the way I did. That would've given me more room to draw and honestly looked a lot cooler, but oh well, I thought of it too late.
I gotta say, I'm looking forward to not having to draw big bustling scenes like the one in the second panel background. I'm pleased with how the ambition of this storyline has turned out, but man, I kinda miss the simpler table conversation strips, haha. I do like how the "Police Department" sign in the first panel sorta morphs into the "WEEWOOs" in the second; I hadn't intended for that parallel originally, but it just happened I guess.
Back to the story! It's taken a rather serious turn, hasn't it?
This has to be the widest view of an action I've ever drawn in this strip; I've drawn pretty big landscapes before but there's never been this much going on in the foreground. It was fun figuring out how this car crash should be laid out, too. I had to think about where each car was coming from, how the crash would have impacted it, and where it would have ended up. I'm sure it's not a realistic depiction of how a crash like this would actually have turned out, but it was certainly interesting to draw.
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