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Don’t you know that she’s had a bad, bad fall?And if you can’t say something nice,don’t say anything at all.—“If You Can’t Say Anything Nice,” Roy Orbison (1965)It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’#20 - Freeside IV«« First | « Previous || Next » | Last »»Read IKROAH on Archive of Our OwnNotes / Original Pencils / Transcript:Notes:Whewwwwww this one was a project. I’ve always wanted to experiment with doing a multiple-page spread like this, and I’m glad that I finally found an excuse! It basically doubled the amount of coloring work that I had to do, but as you can see the result was well worth the trouble.That being said, IKROAH will be going on a sort of semi-informal hiatus (which just means it might be a while until the next comic) because I have some other non-fandom comics I want to work on before the end of the year and also I have been working so hard for so long oh my god I just want to hide in a hole and play video games right now. So I will.Anyway! See you next ish! I’m gonna go beat Metroid Dread.Original PencilsSince I work traditionally, it actually took a lot of effort and precision to make sure the background spread lined up correctly on each page. And it still wasn’t enough because I had to correct the alignment a bit on each page anyway during digitization! You can also see my abundance of notes-to-self about little fixes to make during the coloring process, as well as some…uh…”cut dialogue.”The unique grittiness of the flashback panel in which Agnes confronted Dixon was achieved by leaving it uninked. By scanning it as raw pencil instead of clean black and white, I got a much rougher-looking smattering of black on it during digitization.You can see how large I drew the flyers on the original pencils at first; I shrunk them down digitally. It was easier to draw them bigger and I knew that I could just reposition them later.Something that proved surprisingly difficult during the art process was thinking of things to draw in front of the Fort’s walls. On the original pencils here, you can see that I drew somebody tripping over a rock on Page 5 because I thought that it’d be funny, but I replaced him with birds during the inking process because on second thought it just seemed too distracting.TranscriptJULIE: I can’t believe you…you killed Dixon?INT. THE OLD MORMON FORT in FREESIDE, the Vegas-area headquarters of the FOLLOWERS OF THE APOCALYPSE. The director JULIE FARKAS is engaged in a shouting match with AGNES SANDS, while AGNES’ companion ROSE OF SHARON CASSIDY stands by beside her and JULIE’s associate ARCADE GANNON frets behind her.AGNES: He attacked me! What was I supposed to do?JULIE: I don’t know, not leave yet another murder victim out on the streets of Freeside, maybe?ARCADE: Julie, please…JULIE pinches the bridge of her nose, stressed.JULIE: I thought you’d convince him somehow, not…this!AGNES: We tried. He said we’d have to pay him off, but we didn’t have the caps—JULIE: You could have come back! And asked for the caps!CASS: So what, then, the followers just open their wallets for any asshole selling on their block? Shit, Agnes, maybe we should start pushing and get our money that way.ARCADE leans in to speak to JULIE.ARCADE: Julie, I hate to say it, but she’s got a point. Even if we did give Dixon the caps, it would have set a bad precedent…frankly, we can’t afford to be extorted.JULIE: And this justifies murder, Arcade?JULIE turns her attention back to AGNES and CASS.JULIE: Somehow I doubt Dixon just attacked you two for no reason.AGNES: I told you. He asked for a bribe…that we buy him out, basically. And we, uh…we couldn’t pay, and so…and so I improvised…and I threatened him—JULIE cuts AGNES off, pointing at her furiously.JULIE: —and so you started it!AGNES: I…no, look, he pulled a knife—JULIE: No. Stop. I don’t care. It’s already taking all of our effort to keep tensions between Freesiders and NCR squatters from boiling over into all-out riots, and everyone’s only been even more on edge since somebody took out the Silver Rush*. People are scared, and killing a dealer like Dixon no matter how scummy is only going to make things worse, not better. We’ve been struggling with our patients’ withdrawal symptoms enough as-is.(NOTE: Julie would know who if she’d read IKROAH #17—Lou.)JULIE crosses her arms, immense disappointment and frustration on her face.JULIE: And furthermore? I don’t need your perspective on violence in Freeside. I live here. I know Dixon’s type, and the Followers of the Apocalypse have worked with plenty of people just like him without ever resorting to threats and violence. Do you fucking get it yet?AGNES seethes behind her sunglasses.JULIE: Do you understand what you’ve done?AGNES’ teeth clench tight.JULIE: You’re a murderer.AGNES: I—CASS (interjecting): Yeah, yeah. Nice lecture. But we did what you asked. That asshole won’t be dealing where he’s going, guaranteed. You’re not happy at all?JULIE looks at them hard.JULIE: No. I’m not. I’m not happy that I seem to have put my faith in a pair of hitwomen. You and the Followers have no further business.CASS: What about the caps for our trouble? Nothing?JULIE (turning to leave): The caps you were promised will go toward Dixon’s burial expenses. Arcade, please escort these two out of The Fort.Exeunt JULIE as she enters one of the Followers’ medical tents.ARCADE: I’m sorry about Julie. I mean, I agree with her, but…well, I don’t actually know why I’m apologizing, then. Murder is bad, as it turns out.AGNES: …it’s fine.ARCADE: And she really doesn’t mean to be so harsh…things have just been really, uh, tense around here lately.ARCADE smiles sincerely.ARCADE: Listen, if you’re ever in need of help, you can come back anytime. Really. Just talk to me instead of her. All I’ll lecture you about are, uh, medicinal herbs. Haha.CASS (turning to leave): Thanks, four-eyes. We’ll keep that in mind. Come on, Agnes.AGNES hesitates to follow CASS, remaining still. ARCADE turns to rejoin JULIE, but looks back at AGNES with a worried expression.AGNES: Yeah…thanks.EXT. THE OLD MORMON FORT, the STREETS OF FREESIDE.AGNES: I’ll keep that in mind.AGNES and CASS exit The Fort. -- source link

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