Springtime in Philly (Part 2)

I will put all 3 pages into one post once it is complete.  If you want to read this from the beginning be sure to check out the post below this for page 1.

I took more time thinking about this one, how the panels would be composed.  Page 1 was rough and quick, but it also made me think that I should use more of the surface area of the paper.  I am liking the additional text boxes above the top row of panels and below the bottom row of panels.  It allows me to keep the same dimensions when I am doing thumbnail sketches, but then add additional text.  And I am even liking the use of the side gutter of the page for overlapping text boxes, narration, or like I have done twice, now, added a To Be Continued...

Oddly enough, I started off this page using 2 styles of nib pens, one for the finer details, and then one for broader lines and the panel borders and speech balloons, but I wound up using brush and sumi ink to fill in some of the black portions and do some detail work. I used two different brush pens to fill in large segments of black ink: the Tombow dual-tip brush pen and the Pigma brush (makers of Micron pens).  I am not fully satisfied with either.  I am still on the hunt for the best brush pen for filling in large areas of black on bristol.

I didn't totally intend to include both Star Wars and Star Trek references in this 3 page (not sure if it will get to 4 pages) comic, but I like how they are included.  Now that I think of it, maybe I should do an entire comic strip devoted to my watching the "Spock's Brain" episode of Star Trek.  Another unintended or unplanned image was the many handed clip-boarder.  My initial image was of a clipboard "boxing out" like they teach you in basketball, but when I started drawing the arms, I started to think of Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" or a many-armed Hindu god, but then I couldn't come up with anything interesting or funny enough to say.  Page 3 is not planned, plotted, sketched or thought-up at all, so it should be fun.