Rene's out the window and a pair of gangster types confront Kelly and Sarah. The white suited fellow with the pencil mustache is based on FLASH GORDON artist, Alex Raymond -- while the craggy faced fellow is somewhat inspired by B-movie character actor Mike Mazurki. Wednesday has my favorite gag in the strip so far -- I had the leopard/stripes exchange in my head long before I actually wrote this sequence.
Note the art error -- Raymond's shirt and tie switch from
black and white to
white and black. Oops!
The Sunday page was my response to those who've been troubled by me not adhering 100% to past continuity. Well, folks -- the Rex and June of today's strips
can't really be the Rex and June of two or more decades ago -- it just doesn't make
sense. So while they remain
essentially the same characters, they can't be
precisely the same -- a couple with kids this young can't have nearly
70 years of back history. And I can't be expected to remain faithful to plot points from eras of the strip I have no access to -- so we're moving
forward -- and here we go.
Plus it gave me an excuse to draw "classic" Rex -- if only this once.