Help Haiti Product 1: SGA Comic

[zelempa]

I present to you this comic, drawn for winter_elf with the prompt: beers on the pier.



Title: "Mistake"
Fandom, Pairing: SGA, John/Rodney
Length: About 2 1/2 pages (all merged into one long gif)
Rating: PG. Male toplessness and kissing. (Wait, is this a warning or a promotion?)

That's one out of two help_haiti works down!

Comments

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Yay! And ha! I'm sure that John has other body parts Rodney could accidentally lay a hand on.

(Definitely promotion, btw.)

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Actually, the original way I cropped the thumbnail, I wasn't thinking about the talk bubble--just the arrangement of the faces--and I realized after I did it that the only visible words were "That would be my--"

Almost used it anyway!

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

Hee, oh, very nice. :D I think my favorite bit is the almost pained expression Rodney pauses to make before kissing John. (Nice pacing, by the way.) I really like that title panel, too, and the likenesses are (as always) impressive.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I love your art, so your thoughtful comments mean a lot to me.

And I'm especially glad the pacing works. This was originally scripted as a one-page comic, but I ended up adding a lot of panels to the original sketch because even though the joke is simple, it felt too rushed to try to cram it into one 8.5x11 page. Especially since I apparently require at least three kiss panels. :)

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

Wheeeee! Male toplessness is definitely a promotion :) Thanks for the little comic!

If I had won in the bidding for the story, I would have been torn what to ask for: TS or SGA :)

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! I shipped out the originals to you this morning (three Xerox pages). Display them, recycle them, bind them in your history notebook, use them for decoupage, the possibilities are endless!

[rissabby.livejournal.com]

I love Rodney's tilted-up face as he holds John's hand. Nice kiss panel too.

I agree about the pacing being right. As they say, "take the time to tell your own story".

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the look of, "Hmph! Of course I meant to do that..."

Thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[semielliptical]

Great little story! I love their expressions throughout the comic.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Sheppard's face is one of the funnest things to draw.