Last Bus out of Clarksville….or Ballinafil even.
So now we begin the journey to Ashling’s home. Perhaps I should explain this a bit. In the narrative of the comic, you will learn this eventually, but there’s no harm in you knowing it now.
Ashling’s home is nearly hour’s commute from Ballinafil in a small satellite community, and her mother is constantly at work (you will learn this soon). So for practicalities sake, she lives at Colasite Muire during the week, and then returns home for the weekend.
As for Aoife…well….I think I want to hold back on that. I have in this page planted a ‘red-thread’ related to her, which comes in the form of the silent concern Ashling looks upon her with. Telling you why now, would be a bit of character development spoiler, and I don’t want to spoil Aoife’s development for you.
Now, as for Old vs. New Bata Neart.
As I mentioned last week, the first panel got transformed into a page (last weeks page), but the rest here is really just a re-draw.
I actually corrected one continuty error in the original too. If you look in the second panel with Aoife, you will see that she is wearing a mini-skirt. Two panels later, she turns around and is wearing jeans instead! Shockingly, I didn’t notice the mistake until late into the digital end of the work! (Which was too late to fix it without a re-draw).
The final panel receives a perspective update. The overview of Ballinafil looks far too squashed together and at an odd persecutive angle. The town also appears to be far to close to the reader. In the redraw I have based the background on an overview of Wicklow town, which will serve as a model for Ballinafil.
Coming next week: A Google Streetview tour of the real-life County Wicklow town I am using to model Ashling’s home!
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