Purifier creator commentary pg.41 (Patreon)

Good gravy I really flexed on this page, huh. As I mentioned on pg.40 I went a little crazy with the details because computational electronics of this era were incredibly complex and not yet microminiaturized as our modern PCs. In a way, all the guts of the beast are hanging out for all to see and I'm also just a sucker for this kind of crunchy technical detail. I hope the pungent scent of ozone and din of relays comes across.The layout of panel 3 I referenced heavily from the 2014 film, The Imitation Game about the real-world Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations. In the place of the groundbreaking bombe machine that began to crack the German Enigma codes I've put the Goliath, a highly fictionalized machine I created for the comic. The name is an oblique reference to the Colossus series of computers that came later on in the forties at Bletchley, and the nature of this machine is quite different.Most of the pages in Purifier are exactly as they appear on the page, fully inked and complete. But because of the level of detail I wanted for this aerial map of London that forms the display face of the Goliath, this page is a composite. On the physical page there's a white void with a cheeky scribble indicating London, complete with fish n' chips and cuppa. The map itself I painstakingly traced off the highest resolution I could find onto an 8.5x11" sheet while watching movies. It took a very long time, but I figured this wouldn't be the only time I would need a map of London that matched the comic's inks, so I think it was a worthwhile investment. The grid and indicator lamps are another layer of composite, somewhat similar to a lite-brite, which is more or less what the display actually is, just on an enormous scale.