Oh, the Cicerin yak. The bane of my existence. At the time, doing a story revolving around a herd of 40 yak sounded like a good idea.
And it still is. Don’t get me wrong..I love the story.
But man, if I realized at the time just how many yak I’d be drawing over the course of the five issues, maybe I would have made it a herd of 3. 🙂
HAHAHA…. that would be an awfully poor herd. For that matter, 40 seems a bit small to warrant hiring mercenaries to get them back.
I think the size of the herd depends on the size of the animal. I have a sneaking suspicion that these Cicerin yaks might be a bit bigger than the ones we are accustomed to.
I see Cember turning to Roka to ask his question, but technically, Cember is always “facing” people on all sides of him, isn’t he? Does he just turn his mouth toward others out of politeness? (or perhaps I’m obsessing over a small detail…)
Ha ha! Yeah, Cember is technically always facing people in all directions with his eyes. I do forget that at times and I joke that I know someday I will write a scene where someone sneaks up behind Cember and surprises him, even though he should be able to see him coming. Who knows, maybe the back eyes are less developed than the front and actually don’t work as well. But in this particular case, we can chalk it up to him turning his head so Roka will know who he’s talking to.
Why does Ril look disappointed / angry in panel one?
Does he think the Dhama is lying about not having any other team??
That’s just his normal, angry, suspicious look. 🙂 He’s not reacting to anything in particular though.