Sometimes I get to laying out a comic and realize it's running too long for me to be able to get where I wanted to go with it. This is one of those situations; the plan was for this one to include the content of the next one. As it worked out, the next comic works better standing alone from all this backstory. But it left this comic without a strong punchline.

I really wasn't happy with making a couple of Honeymooners references and calling it a day; on the other hand, I loved turning that shot of Sinbad and Cantu into an argument. In the movie, Cantu has just snapped at Ali and given in to despair. Sinbad steps in and gives him some inspirational words of encouragement. But once I started looking at individual frames, I realized it looked like he was giving Cantu a verbal reaming. More aggressive frames from that shot next week.