One of the things I have the most fun with is the character interaction between the Henchmen. The last two panels were fun to draw and I actually hadn’t planned on the laughing when I originally plotted this part of the story, but when I got here it made perfect sense. The characters occasionally seem to go in directions that surprise me. The next couple of pages were surprising as well, but you’ll see them next week.
I figure that Tinker is smart enough to have code words for the Henchmen to use so if one of them is captured and is forced to communicate with the others, he could insert some of these special words into the conversation so that they would know that something was wrong.
When I was a kid Superman’s “fortress of solitude” was a big ice cave somewhere up north with a large yellow door that he had to open with a giant key. Supposedly the idea was that only Superman was strong enough to be able to use the key, but I always wondered why he needed a door and a key in the first place. Why not just place a really big, heavy object in the way that only Superman could move in the first place?
That’s the idea behind Roid Rage’s hiding place. It’s just hidden under a big block of concrete that he thinks only he can move. Of course, if he forgets to seal it back up again, it doesn’t do him any good at all. Maybe that was the point behind Superman’s giant key and door – he was more likely to remember to close it up when he left….
