Friday, September 17, 2021

Set the Controls, Chapter 2: The Mad Circus


 

STC page 21

STC page 22


STC page 23


STC page 24


STC page 25; see notes at bottom


STC page 26


STC page 27


STC page 28


STC page 29


STC page 30


STC page 31


STC page 32


STC page 33


STC page 34


STC page 35


STC page 36


STC page 37


STC page 38


STC page 39


STC page 40


STC page 41


STC page 42


STC page 43


STC page 44


STC page 45


STC page 46; I ran out of ink and had to switch to a black ballpoint pen


STC page 47; see below for notes to this page and the next


STC page 48


*Notes to page 25:

The ultimate stereo system!  I'd read that in the near future a laser would be reading a disc.  They were talking about CDs.  The "lasertable" shown in the third panel is my notion of what that meant: a laser beam reading a vinyl record.  The record on the turntable, by the way, is Pink Floyd's UMMAGUMMA (1969).  When you have a record player like this one, it would be prudent to have a "TOTAL STEREO POWER-CUT CORE", like the one shown on page 26.

*Notes to pages 47 and 48:

I switched pens again, as you can see.  While I was working on page 48 my pen exploded and made a mess in the bottom panel.  I tried to work the disaster into a composition.  Unfortunately, the whole thing bled through the page, partly obscuring the bottom of page 47.  In the second last panel, you can sort of see Circus Maximus running across a bridge, and knocking someone off, and the doomed man's hands beside the word "NOOOO" as he plummets head first to his death.  Oh well -- he was about to die anyway.

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