Collision, pages 6&7

Comic can be found here at my site, and here at deviantart (link to the gallery folder rather than latest page, as this is a two-page update).

Well, things are starting to happen. We also have some deep and meaningful dialogue in the second panel of page 6 that probably has a reason to be written the way it is.

I think I didn't manage to convey very well April dropping the flashlight when Sam jumped out of the car, instead of perhaps throwing it away before starting to run, which would make little sense for her to do.

Kids, as well as adults, do a lot of things that aren't the most logical course of action in JP/W media (spoilers for the movies, as well as JP:TG, in the form of examples at the end of this sentence, then), and I don't mind that as much as some of the audience does (why did Lex shine a light at the T. rex? Why didn't Tim give Ellie and Alan the gun or why didn't they ask him to? Why would Jess sneak away to do something as stupid as smoking a cigarette when they just barely escaped from Velociraptors? Why did Maisie hide in her bed instead of somewhere safer - are you kidding me, what's the place you're safest from monsters, where they can't get you no matter what? your own bed under the covers). Because people aren't always at their most rational when they're scared, and maybe looking for things to comfort them when they have no means to instead make the scary thing go away, and I can cut a lot of slack especially for scared children, who I think it would make less sense to always know what to do in the unusual circumstances they can't have been prepared for. Everyday life has plenty of confusing situations that can be intimidating because you don't know what to do, especially but definitely not only when you're a kid, let alone when you're being chased by dinosaurs.

But, I think at this point April just didn't think to pick up the flashlight, as that's a nonsensible thing to do that makes more sense under the circumstances. Her dog just ran away into the dark woods, surely that's all there is to be scared about. That she'd react by running after him without thinking I'm just going to base on that that's what I did in that situation as a kid.

Compared to some other pages, these don't have as much traditional media elements, but I had fun with the lighting. One of the first concepts I had of this comic was the potential for dramatic shadows and spotlights, and I love those. The colourful raptor comics I've been mostly drawing recently don't use that style very often. I think I've missed doing comics in (mostly) greyscale.