Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 2

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Today's installment in the slideshow will become clearer once Page 12 is posted. But for now I'll mention that in today's quote -

Book Two/Issue Three/Page 12/Flashback - Nathan: '"I
LEARNED WHAT TO SAY AND HOW TO SAY IT, HOW AND
WHERE TO GET FOOD AND CLOTHES AND LIVE LONG
ENOUGH IN ONE PLACE TO GET ENOUGH TO GET
SOMEWHERE ELSE--'

- Nathan explains how he survived after leaving home when he was in the seventh grade...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the twelfth page:

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Note the dialogue and panels that were not included in the slideshow. They help to fill in Nathan's background...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the thirteenth page:

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Note the few bits of skipped dialogue and just one skipped panel...

And I wish I could come up with a good reason for Willie's dialogue to keep jumping back and forth between "Jeez" and "Geez" - but I can't. We dealt with it back in Issue 2, and now here we're faced with it again in Issue 3. Willie said "Geez" back on Page 10 in the bottom left panel - and now on this page he's back to "Jeez" in the top left panel. I suppose we're just going to have to accept that it's going to continue jumping back and forth without any rhyme or reason...

Also, who knows why so many panels are skewed on their pages lately? Though I suppose it's a minor thing - particularly if it simply happens when the issues are put together.

[Uncle Roger]

Did Willie shave between panels? He seems to have a mustache and stubble in the first two panels. But he appears relatively clean shaven in the lower left hand panel. Since it's a closer shot, shouldn't there be more detail?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Oops - even though I uploaded today's correct quote, I forgot to upload its corresponding scan.    And normally I would have caught that hours ago before I went to bed, but, bad MB, last night I didn't check the forum before I went to bed.

But anyway, if you're not seeing this pairing on the BoardIndex page -

Book Two/Issue Three/Page 14 - Willie: 'MIZ STODDARD
SAID I COULD BORROW THIS TARGET PISTOL MR.
STODDARD USED TA USE. YOU S'POSE I COULD HAVE A
LITTLE PIECE OF NUT LOAF?'

- you need to clear your browser's cache. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Since it's a closer shot, shouldn't there be more detail?

Another of the endless mysteries at Collinwood. 

[KMR]

Did Willie shave between panels? He seems to have a mustache and stubble in the first two panels. But he appears relatively clean shaven in the lower left hand panel. Since it's a closer shot, shouldn't there be more detail?

He'd just been eating a candy bar and was pretty messy (which I'd figure), and wiped his mouth on his sleeve sometime between panels.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And there we have it - the perfect explanation, KMR! 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Hmm - with today's graphic it seems like Nathan has been -

- watching original DS' Ep #250:

[Uncle Roger]

Obviously, Willie has changed a lot since he became involved with Barnabas. But has he changed enough for Elizabeth to trust him with a target pistol?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

That's a good question that I didn't even think of. But maybe we're supposed to presume that Liz might feel that now that Barnabas oversees Willie, there wouldn't be a problem - and as we'll see once Page 14 gets posted, it seems as if Barnabas made the request. Though as we've already seen in the slideshow, Mrs. Johnson is none too keen on the idea of Willie having the gun...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the fourteenth page:

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Note the skipped dialogue that helps to explain Willie's reasoning for wanting the gun (though after Page 13, we can suspect why he really wants it) and the one skipped panel...

And it may be a miracle: two consecutive uses of "Jeez" (the first panel on Page 13 and the first panel here) rather than alternating between "Jeez" and "Geez"...

Also, note that Willie's mustache shadow is back. But then we don't really know how much time passed between the scene between Willie and Nathan on Page 13 and the scene here on this page...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Maybe rather than getting a gun, Willie should have focused on making the doors at the Old House break in proof -

- Julia, no accounts Pete and Fred, and now Nathan seem to have no trouble getting in...

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Here's the fifteenth page:

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Another page where all the dialogue and all the panels were used in the slideshow. But then, there are only three panels...

And again a page that would normally be a full page but doesn't fully extend to the sides and has a margin at the top and bottom.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And here's the sixteenth page:

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And opposite of the previous page, this page has quite a few panels and bits of dialogue that weren't used in the slideshow...