Crickets Creature

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Hold That Thought

patrickdevine

on Dec. 9, 2008

I revised the dialogue in the second panel about three times and I'm still not 100% happy with it. After some text-heavy pages before this page it came as a welcome rest from lettering.
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@usedbooks: I'm glad that somebody likes him, in my mind he's one of only a few nice people in this comic too. And with all the stone and brick buildings and not a tree in sight it does seem a bit like Europe. Viva la Resistance!
@cameron11691: Always great to have a new reader, thanks! I checked out some of your comics too, I like how you color.
@ulthor: Ollie might one day marry a girl like Cricket, I can't be sure it would be Cricket herself though.
@Peipei: Ollie's mother probably doesn't like Cricket because she steals, lies, wears weird clothes and smells funny. The way I imagine it is Dee and Cricket were two friends that Ollie's mother didn't approve of him having.
@Steely Gaze: Ollie is generally Cricket's only trustworthy friend and one of the few people that genuinely likes her. I had fun with that bicycle, I like bikes even though I hardly ever ride mine anymore it seems. So France then? I guess the name "St. Loraine" does sound kind of French now that you mention it.
@amanda: That's not true! it gets colder that 70 degrees in space! That being said this comic must take place in space.
@Zephyrion: Thanks!
@Trevor: Haha! You're right. I imagine Ollie's mother is in her mid-forties, (I imagine she had Ollie when she was pretty young,) unfortunately I've always found that age hard to get right, I'm always drawing them looking too old or too young. I liked the first three panels too. Especially the second panel for the fact that I didn't need to worry about balloon placement. (new Temple story's looking great by the way!)
@Warped: That works too!