"Out of the frying pan..."

Rumbling along nicely now... another page in the can.
Just 4 more to go before I can start thinking about the "extras"...

Here are some transitional panels leading up to the final pages... I thought it might be nice to show some of the panels within their layout positions to give a better impression of what the finished pages might look like.

My private life has taken a sudden turn for the best recently... but I'm much too suspicious of my good fortune to speak of it at any length yet for fear that I will jinx myself...
How sad that I've been reduced to such a cynical curmudgeon by my past missteps... afraid to wholeheartedly embrace a possible opportunity for fear of failure....

Just keep your nose to the grindstone, old man...

"STOMPYCAT!"

Moving along now at a fairly regular pace now...
This sequence ends page 32 and I'm already nearly finished with 33 as I type this (I will post panels from the new page in the days to follow).

This little "headstomp" POV passage brings up another one of those decisions regarding gratuitous violence for the sake of drama in the story...
I have a panel prepared along the top of the following page that will either simply remain solid black with blood spatter... or it will brutally depict the Director's head shattering like an overripe melon beneath the Pugilist's boot. So far, I'm opting for the more subtle approach... even though that bastard certainly deserves to suffer such visual indignity for what he's done...
Then again, I was sure to show the crippling agony leading up to his ultimate demise... so perhaps that will have to suffice.

Getting closer all the time now... and I'm really beginning to feel the pressure...

Wish me luck...