The last panel was supposed to be a close-up of the two hooded figures to really get the idea across of them ominously looking at the crew. But I just couldn’t figure out how to do it. There are actual heads under those hoods, so any close-up would have to reveal some kind of head underneath, even if mostly in shadow, and I just wasn’t ready to reveal that head shape yet. I could have stuck with the same pure black shadow used in the long shot, but for a close-up, I thought that would register as something supernatural like the Ringwraiths in Lord of the Rings, which was not the intent. So in the end, I skipped the front view close-up and settled on a view from the back, even though I covered that shot already a couple pages back. But I do like it since the two shapes frame the crew in a way that works well.
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Good choice for not going for the close-up. They already look spooky in the title panel.
Now the readers can also guess who are under those hoods.
I’m going for two of Sky’s ‘sisters’/’clones’.
Let the speculation begin! They will turn out to actually be Ringwraiths. Ha ha.