I always enjoy drawing the full-page splash page drawings.  I can’t do them too often, or the story would take three times longer to finish, but it’s fun to slip them in occasionally.

This one is a special tribute to the classic scene from James Cameron’s Aliens.  I still remember the cheers that rose up from the full-house audience when Ripley emerged from behind the door to confront the alien queen and uttered the famous line.  I actually worried about using ‘bitch’ but I decided that it was an essential part of the scene that I was paying tribute to.

Thanks to everyone who has been submitting names for our sword-wielding villainess.  If you haven’t submitted your suggestion yet, you have another week or two before I’ll reveal her new name.

Stay tuned!