Week 146! (Patreon)

Here's the other comic for July, comic 392 going up on the 18th.

Some minor alteration in the dialogue, but otherwise pretty much the same as was in the script. Slowly building up, with some small "why is Kale being assertive right now" exposition.

Oh, here's something you probably didn't really think about: I've been mildly, consciously skirting and fucking with the 180 degree rule in the past few comics. If you don't know, the 180 degree rule is where a "line" is established between characters that the "camera" isn't allowed to cross. This means the person on the right will stay on the right and vice versa for the left, and this helps maintain a sense of consistency and ease of understanding for positioning of characters interacting for the viewer. 

You generally don't have your camera cross that line unless you either put in an establishing action shot to show the characters switching sides... or to intentionally try and play with the audience in terms of subtle feeling. Movies like The Shining, Fight Club, and Requiem for a Dream do this, where they use a breaking of the 180 degree rule to denote significant events and create an uncomfortable atmosphere, and I'd figure I'd try a mild version of it myself.

So, in comic 389, notice between the first set of panels and the final panel, Kale and Lucy switched sides, Kale going left to right and Lucy going right to left, to denote the start of things being "off". In comic 391, Kale and Lucy switched positions again several times, Kale right to left to right to center, Lucy left to right to left to center to left. Their positioning swaps in the second half of the page also symbolized their "positions" in terms of reasoning about the Door: Kale being on the right and for opening it, Fox Kale and Lucy being on the left and against opening it. When Kale is reasoning with Lucy, she shifts to center as she considers, then the right when she accepts Kale's position. And in this comic, 392, the "camera" is constantly going from in front of them to behind to break the rule even more as things are getting more unsettling and unknown.

Dunno if it worked at all for anybody, but I thought it was just a neat thing to implement and try.