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Page 12

sewerman

on April 12, 2007

SAW 2008: within the context of the early issues, this is one of the most successful pages. The art isn't as ridiculously bad, and the dialogue is kinda funny. After repeatedly drawing him, I was starting to get a good feel for Sewerman's proportions, and Rodent almost always looks good.

The fish-as-rodent exchange returns throughout the remainder of the series, as a sort of Monty Python "One, two, five" or Arrested Development "Ann/Egg" joke we can just pop in there.

One joke in a super-early draft of a Sewerman script, had Rodent introducing himself as "part-man, part-rodent." The other character then paused and asked… "Which parts?" And when I re-read that years later it had me laughing so hard I had to work it in eventually. I think it comes up in #10.