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2010.06.23 at 17:53

Like Strip 149, the initial layout for 150 was a bit different - originally, Whitehouse went into the Studio, powered on the equipment, and picked up a sheaf of flyers from the desk. As the studio doesn't seriously service the story until much later in the chapter, I reworked the layouts to cut it out completely. The end result is this set of strips hitting the web a good two or three days before they would have otherwise.

Yay flyer.

While the main reason for tweaking the layouts of 149 and 150 was to carefully tweeze the need for the studio out of this page, the new layouts also serve another purpose - they work well with the radio monologue.

This is the first time DCR is actually heard, and while it's broadcast-only, integrating the pre-recorded bit not only gives context for Whitehouse's actions, it also builds in a fashion that aesthetically services the narrative.