O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-9/
First appearance of the more contemporary terminology used to refer to robots throughout the story.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-8/
We do briefly see some of young Al’s drawings she’s referring to in Chapter 6. And yes, I get to finally use those pronouns this time around!
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-7/
It’s them!!! I’ve sometimes seen Tsade described as Anubis-like, but I’m pretty sure its design was influenced by images of the Set, who’s based on an animal we still don’t entirely recognize.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-6/
The multitool! Mother of pearl inlay with an art nouveau design. The only prop that incorporates all three color palettes.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-5/
Al’s first line in the comic was very intentional, especially when you compare it to Sulla’s later in the chapter.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-4/
Let’s start talking about the color palette! The red on this page is related hue-wise to the flashback color palette, but this red is exclusively for dramatic effect in the blue “future” sections.
Also, uh, RIP Al, sorry.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-3/
The context for the note (and the fight) we’ll get later in Chapter 5 was something I’d decided before I started drawing the comic, and stayed pretty close to the original outline! The story grew in quite a few ways, but a few major beats were always there.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-2/
What I distinctly remember about working on this chapter is that I did not discover’s Photoshop’s “press shift and click to draw a straight line” trick until I was halfway through. You can definitely tell looking at these early pages.
O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-1/
Here’s the first appearance of what readers started calling “the blue fairy,” though I never gave her a name and she’s more influenced by Alphonse Mucha illustrations. Totally works thematically, of course!
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