i'm glad sugar was wearing shoes!! i love the eerie lighting on this page a lot too like they're being illuminated by a flashlight (especially in the last panels)
also sugar taking hold of lola's hand and the uncomfortable pause before they split up (and the different in intensity of them saying the same word) seem to connect with sugar's right eye being exposed (not sure if thats right or why but)
edit i realized it's partly because of the blood on their hands but yeah,
an lola starting their sentence about what they think happened twice but not finishing it seems.. important
also are they gonna find a gun? or somethin not so good
sometimes if people get a bad infestation of bedbugs they have to leave all their stuff bc they can hide everywhere. Not saying thats the cause here but i always think about it every time there's an abandoned home with a lot of belongings.
i really really like the lighting on this page.
me too! the script originally mentioned bedbugs at one point, but it was edited out. the thing here is that they're in the desert-- and one effective way to kill bedbugs is with heat. not too uncommon to see people leave their couches outside for a few days to kill bedbugs in arizona.
the hand grab in panel 14 (i think?) looks 99% exactly like the one in the top banner... what a beautiful touch!!! ( i got a screenshot of it,, just in case it was significant) except, obviously its much darker.
also the way their hands break apart in the last one - i could be over analyzing but i worry that something bad is happening between them? Lola looks uncomfortable and nervous almost and Sugar looks angry. but that could just be me!! Everything is so beautifully drawn, such care is given to detail and lighting.
..... does Lola ever wear shoes? I hope their feet are okay :0
this reminds me of the abandoned house I went into... it was filled with a ton of letters scattered throughout the bedroom and the garage and back shed were COMPLETELY filled with vintage porn novels
Well if you look closely you can see Sugar grabs Lola's hurt hand, and I think that short exchange of looks between them is a mix of Sugar being :/ over Lola not telling her how bad their hand was hurt and then maybe something deeper and more serious.
i can explain!
on the last page, sugar takes lola's hand and starts firmly holding it while pulling her along (as a protective gesture and to apply pressure to the cut to make it stop bleeding). so. that's necessary information for the following.
5th to last panel: both of them see something they're interested in looking at on opposite sides of the room. they're moving towards those things.
4th to last panel: they get far enough away from each other that their arms lock with tension, because they're still tightly holding hands at this point.
3rd to last panel: both of them say something trying to convince the other they should go in the direction SHE wants to go. they don't want to split hands.
2nd to last panel: now, this panel is a little ambiguous (purposefully) and can be interpreted 2 ways. what's happening in the panel is that lola's pulling her arm away from sugar while sugar's still holding her hand-- but sugar is much stronger than her. two ways to read this: 1) lola was trying to pull her hand away and sugar didn't want to let go; or 2) lola was trying to pull sugar in the direction away from the knives and sugar was too heavy and stubborn to be budged.
last panel: sugar releases lola's hand and they're immediately walking away from each other to go inspect separate things. sugar comments on the fact that she hates books (after so much school) to try to clarify why she so badly did not want to go by the books. lola doesn't clarify why she doesn't want to go look at the knives and just acknowledges what sugar said to relieve tension.
is the "photodegay-" line from sugar supposed to be indicative of an accent or lisp, or was it just her fumbling her words? also, lola's reaction to it was essentially mine, lmao. what a great page!
yes, she was trying to say photodegraded. she's high here, so she stumbled over her words a bit-- she did used to have a lisp. language and speech problems are common with developmental disorders like ADHD, and sugar received a lot of speech therapy when she was younger. there's more on that that'll be elaborated on with comics later, so i'll save it, but, yeah, that was a slight lapse back into that stumbling over a pretty large word while stoned.
also sugar taking hold of lola's hand and the uncomfortable pause before they split up (and the different in intensity of them saying the same word) seem to connect with sugar's right eye being exposed (not sure if thats right or why but)
edit i realized it's partly because of the blood on their hands but yeah,
an lola starting their sentence about what they think happened twice but not finishing it seems.. important
also are they gonna find a gun? or somethin not so good
also calling it right now--this looks like a drug den. Inb4 they find some hard stuff.
i really really like the lighting on this page.
also the way their hands break apart in the last one - i could be over analyzing but i worry that something bad is happening between them? Lola looks uncomfortable and nervous almost and Sugar looks angry. but that could just be me!! Everything is so beautifully drawn, such care is given to detail and lighting.
..... does Lola ever wear shoes? I hope their feet are okay :0
on the last page, sugar takes lola's hand and starts firmly holding it while pulling her along (as a protective gesture and to apply pressure to the cut to make it stop bleeding). so. that's necessary information for the following.
5th to last panel: both of them see something they're interested in looking at on opposite sides of the room. they're moving towards those things.
4th to last panel: they get far enough away from each other that their arms lock with tension, because they're still tightly holding hands at this point.
3rd to last panel: both of them say something trying to convince the other they should go in the direction SHE wants to go. they don't want to split hands.
2nd to last panel: now, this panel is a little ambiguous (purposefully) and can be interpreted 2 ways. what's happening in the panel is that lola's pulling her arm away from sugar while sugar's still holding her hand-- but sugar is much stronger than her. two ways to read this: 1) lola was trying to pull her hand away and sugar didn't want to let go; or 2) lola was trying to pull sugar in the direction away from the knives and sugar was too heavy and stubborn to be budged.
last panel: sugar releases lola's hand and they're immediately walking away from each other to go inspect separate things. sugar comments on the fact that she hates books (after so much school) to try to clarify why she so badly did not want to go by the books. lola doesn't clarify why she doesn't want to go look at the knives and just acknowledges what sugar said to relieve tension.