That brain looks less angry and more scared now, don't you think?
I wasn’t sure how we were going to do physics in the Cloud Space. I settled on things popping on. The little lines and sound effects really sold what was happening in the last page, so I figured they’d carry over and work here too. I used the little dotted-outline-from-the-back-of-the-cereal-box technique to imply those shapes that had been removed and replaced with Adarakh’s more business-like avatar.
Also, “Serious face.” totally killed me. I’m a big believer in casual dialogue. I was out at a chinese restaurant when I was sixteen with a couple friends, and we got into little bit of fun pretending we were brokering some international drug deal. Talking about the “shipment” and “Consequences” and trying to be all veiled like we see in the movies. One of my friends, a couple years older and a lot more worldly, had actually heard mid-level drug traffickers talking about this sort of thing and he said the following:
“They never say that. A drug dealer won’t say all sly-like “I can make sure the ‘goods’ arrive on time.” They’ll say “You want crack at this party? I can get you a pound of crack. A POUND!”
We still use that as a quote expressing enthusiasm. If you do something everyday, you get comfortable with it. Be it a felony or not. If you were Adarakh, and you dressed up as a wizard in a virtual ether-space where all the rules of “Second Life” apply and you can do anything day after day, you’d be pretty casual about it. Also, Adarakh seems to like being informal to poke fun at Brule’s grave-bordering-on-emo demeanor.
A POUND!