You know what, trying to draw black-and-white night scenes with characters dressed mostly in black is harder than it looks. I’m just saying.
In other news, in a couple of weeks I’ll be in Ottawa (Capital city of Canada, that is) for Can-Con: The Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Fiction and Literature. I’ll have an exhibitor table in the dealer’s room. This is the first time I’ve been to this show, so I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s all about! Also, it’s good to have an excuse to get back to Ottawa (at this point my sister-in-law will complain that having family to visit nearby should be excuse enough! I know. 
). It’s a nice city!
Escape and evasion 101: Travel quickly, avoid contact, be invisible. Have a plan, know where you’re going. Not too sure about the last two.
Hey, you’ll be in my neck of the woods! I’ll be busy with the animation festival, though, and CanCon is in the way west part of town, far without a car. I’ll try to slip by and see if I can snag books though!
Tara, you’re not alone. Look at Hollywood trying to do night scenes.
Now, I can’t draw a straight line, but perhaps if the sky was colored in some tone of gray, with little white dots for stars?
Like the escape from DeathStar1, I get the feeling this is too easy. They have proved somewhat resistant to the Miesti Mind Control, so they’ve been allowed to escape in hopes of following them back to either their ship, or the OREHU.
BTW – Love the WebComic. Thanks for making it available to us!
Agreed; this escape seems too easy.
Hey, we’re very nearly to the end of the old print run… pretty soon we’ll be in new territory!
Seconding the thought of grey tones. (I was actually going to suggest it, then Oarboar beat me to it!). Right now, I have the impression it is daylight – I never would have known it was night if you had not mentioned it. You’ll lose a little bit of definition between foreground and background using greys, but you would lose that definition at night, anyway. ^_^.
Same here, I thought it was daylight and even knowing it’s night it’s really hard to tell by looking at the page. My inner photographer (who, erm, just got lectured about doing this today) is poking me and saying that any white object without a light source becomes black so it would make more sense IMO if a lot of those white spots on the page were gray instead, although this is just my two cents.
What I’m most interested in on this page – besides what’s actually going to happen to Aria and Zan – is that you used a thought balloon, which has fallen so out of favour in narrative (as opposed to comedic) comics that I now think of it as rather a bold creative choice. That’s old school, Tara. You’re officially hard core. : )
Or maybe I’m just officially old!
I’ve always thought that reluctance to use thought-bubbles probably stems from movie envy, comic writers trying to emulate movies. Perhaps without even realizing it.
Galaxion is taking a bold stand that it doesn’t have to emulate movies. (Movies should be emulating it!)
Do we hear only Aria’s thoughts, because she is the narrator?
The simple solution to night scenes is to just make everything black except the sound effects and the text!
Who needs night? They’re running! We can see that so this is still a great page!
Whoa. Kanata? That’s near where I live!
Bell’s Corners, which isn’t too far from the old core city or from the former city of Kanata either…
Hello Tara, I was the one at FanExpo you signed 2 book and who told you about crest/banner of the stars. Well, thats not important, what is important is that I LOVE you comic, and I just now caught up to the latest. The latest… argh! what am I gonna do, I need more, MORE! Keep the amazing work, best story i’ve read in a while
Very pleased to see Aria leading the heroics here…