The dangers of knowing what you want to draw, and not knowing what you want to write. It came together in the end, in the vein I wanted it too, so on the whole I’m happy about it. But, I did abandon the more caption like dialog in the top panels because what I wanted to draw interfered with what I wanted to draw.

A couple of weeks ago the newest Prince Valiant book came in the mail, about the time I was laying out this stretch of pages. I think I’ll be making a more dedicated attempt at that format in the future, all fancy drawing and captions, not so much with the balloons.