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SR 1 PAGE EIGHTY-NINE This information may SHOCK and DISTURB you, but here goes… I have not been to many sports stadia.  I’ve been inside the Kia Forum and the (*long, heavy sigh*) “Crypto.com Arena” a few times to see bands play, but the one and only time I went to a stadium to see…

SR 1 PAGE EIGHTY-SEVEN Hey, my SECOND-least favorite page in the book! As we discussed earlier, page twelve bothers me because it’s too mean-spirited. This page bugs me because this just flat-out isn’t Sera. No WAY our social-phobic recluse would be so cool and confident with these guys.  How do I know that? Easy: I…

SR 1 PAGE EIGHTY-FIVE “HUG’S” is loosely based on a chain of truck stops called “LOVE’S.” My partner Ami and I stop at the Love’s in Quartzsite, AZ, every time we head out to visit her folks in Tucson. It’s great! They’ve got ads posted over every urinal so you can peruse all their sales…

SR 1 PAGE EIGHTY-THREE Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list And the Statue of Liberty started shakin’ her fist And the eagle will fly man, it’s gonna be hell When you hear mother freedom start ringin’ her bell And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down…

SR 1 PAGE EIGHTY-ONE “Rivet head,” for anyone who doesn’t know, is slang for an industrial music fan. I guess because of all the factory sounds in there? And because rivets are very cool, good for holding heads together, etc. The goth and industrial subcultures have been lashed together with barbed wire since the late…

SR 1 PAGE SEVENTY-NINE And so we enter the edgiest issue of Serenity Rose. “Edgy” is a relative thing, obviously (This won’t suddenly become a Mike Diana comic or anything). Issue four is just angrier and swear-ier than any of the others. I remember when my mom was reading this one I heard “BAD WORDS!”…

SR 1 PAGE SEVENTY-SEVEN Vicious looks a little wrong to me here, but I can’t exactly place what it is… This is only the third time we’ve seen her, so the design isn’t 100% nailed down yet. Her head is maybe too rectangular in those first couple panels? Almost Tess-like. Her chin should be pointier,…

SR 1 PAGE SEVENTY-FIVE YO! What do you think ectoplasm feels like?  I think it starts out as some viscous Nickelodeon-style slime, then hardens into Gummi, then converts into any texture or consistency the conjuror can imagine. According to panel four here it can become as brittle as a Faberge egg. I think about witchcraft…

SR 1 PAGE SEVENTY-THREE Have you ever met anybody with a split tongue?  I’ve never encountered a body modification that really freaked me out, but I have to admit there’s something unsettling about forked tongues. Maybe it’s because a lot of people can move both chunks individually? It makes it seem very alien, like “WHAT…

SR 1 PAGE SEVENTY-ONE Really like that drawing of Vicious up top there. It would make a cool little statue, wouldn’t it? Even has a fancy decorative base. There have been very few attempts to make Serenity Rose toys over the years, and it bums me out because I’d LOVE to see my characters in…