Chap. 4, pg. 30: no need
Learning moment from this page: I was watching a youtube video (“How to Ink a Page with Mark Morales” by Proko on Youtube). One of the most helpful things he noted was that it was critical was to get faces and hands right in the inks. It made a lot of sense to me – if those things go wrong, the whole page feels wrong, or doesn’t convey what it was meant to. Sometimes, like in the first panel, the face isn’t important (to me). That may be the wrong choice, but Jona’s features AREN’T important to me there, the body language is. Somehow, that’s right to me.
Unrelated: It’s interesting when things loop back on themselves: Corona’s plot was obsessed with wasting time, in the end. That’s not really NLL’s resolution, but it’s interesting that it happened twice.
I know Oryx is totally fine and normal and trying to help and everything, but I can’t help but feel resentful of her. Like she represents this normalcy, this perfect happy little life of someone who fits in the system. It’s all well and good for her, but not everybody does, you know? And I know Jona isn’t reacting rationally but I feel like there’s good reasons for that too.
That’s a good perception of Oryx though. Making herself fit in the system was easier for her than Jona and she doesn’t have to worry about the same things.