Volume 2 Page 168
Posted January 25, 2017 at 12:01 am

Panel 3: The ill-starred fellow in the passenger seat is, as astute readers will remember, a callback to the (literally) nightmarish Empowered vol.1 story “Willy Pete,” which told the tragic tale of how Thuboy’s old villain-victimizing crew of self-proclaimed “Witless Minions” ran afoul of a bad guy With Whom You Do Not Want to Mess.

Panels 4 and 5: Purely an accident, I think, but the line of the car door at panel 4’s bottom center leads well into the line of the door in panel 5—which, as you’ll soon see, is a very different type of door. (This is a fairly surreal dream sequence, after all.) This is a fairly benign form of tangency between panels, and in fact is one that some comic artists use deliberately. Unsure if I meant to do this or not, though, due to how I mask off all the panels I’m not working on; this could’ve been an unintentional error, if not a glaring one.

For more on tangencies in comic art and how to avoid them—or at least be aware of them—check out the Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.

-Adam Warren

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