I 9 P 28 "I lost to a boy!"

So let's see, what's going on here.

I was asking Koen to start really looking at what was going on witht he lighting here. Throughout this issue we were working on a couple of things. One was getting crowds into place. It's hard to really have a sense of scale with just objects- people are a necessity as well. So what we have here is people in the background, while Ronni is midway between and Prom Queen is in the foreground.

At this particular moment, PQ is about eight feet tall. Initially I had slated for her to be growing very, very slowly as she absorbed mass, but Koen kinda pushed the scaling along and I didn't argue. The giantess fans stick with us even though I practically starve them, given how the title of the book is 'giant girl adventures'.

Another element we were working on with this issue was the lighting. I wanted for the shadows to fade to the background, to have the ceiling more in shadow, and for the room to look a but less 'four color'. I think we definitely are making progress by this panel, and you can see the evolution as it progresses over the next few pages.

Now, what I love about this is, once again, Ronni's dress. That sparkly fabric really sold that dress as something spectacular, and it will be showcased in a variety of ways over the course of this issue. And PQ's shoes- she is barely wedged into those things and you know they have to be particularly painful to be wearing right this second.

Runny mascara- it really doesn't happen with modern cosmetics, but I like the concept and the look, so I asked Koen to include it.

So she's not only upset that the Disney princess ending for the prom that she envisioned hasn't come to pass, but as insult to injury she lost to a boy. Not that 64 Bit is helping there, but really, she's pretty committed to using her gadget to get more powerful. Generally people tend to react to moments of destiny in certain ways and this is one of those reactions. Exacerbated of course by the fact that Ronni is there, which of course slants it toward the negative. Although if she wasn't here this would be a hell of a problem for someone else to deal with... but we'll get into all of that soon enough.

"Whudever, nancy boy." Hee hee hee!

I 9 P 27 "Do the right thing part 27"

So this one started out in life as the bottom two panels of this page:



Thing is, the first panel was so good... he had gotten all of those faces and reactions in there and I felt they would go to waste as a smaller panel of a full page. So that meant that these bottom two were left alone. Once again, Ronni tries to do the right thing. The sane thing even. And hopefully I managed to get a decent enough portrait of what the kid raised by her shut-in granma's life was like. I mean, she talked to her collection of stuffed animals and wished they could be there to see her inevitable triumph.

Girl is weird and she is lonely. And she communicates through physical violence. We'll get back to that.

Okay, the F'tuvian mass driver works for her for a reason. Back in the beginning of the issue in the flashback, there was a scene off camera, where Bobby did get taken by the aliens, and she was experimented upon. The F'tuvians attuned her to their genetic code. So that they could test her to see how useful her progeny might be in successive generations. Such qualities were useful in slaves, after all.

SO, pint is that it is because Bobby Doll had her physiology tampered with- note her using two F'tuvian pistols in said flashback? Because of the alien experimentation. Blasters never worked for anyone else, despite best efforts by a few of the Society members.

Now Ayesha Kerr's birthright has come to her, in more ways than one. Tonight, she'll incarnate as a power on the earth.

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~Sabrina