12 December, 2020

RetrosPexive: Radio Rezzie

 


In virtually re-mounting the Pex strips for this blog, I've tweaked a few things here and there. Artwork is the most common revisitation, but sometimes script, and also sometimes chronology. Radio Rezzie, by Jamas Enright, had its position in the story sequence messed with twice: initially Jamas scripted it without Pex's future chum/foil in it. As that was unfolding after the script was written, it was an easy matter of shifting some panels around and putting in one without dialogue to show that character reaction to - but not being involved in - the action. Shift forward twenty-one years (ouch!), and that character has been removed, because Radio Rezzie is now set before he and Pex meet. I had no panel which had been replaced to introduce that guy, so I drew a new one. And this one sort of has some dialogue in it (sorry Jamas) - but it does introduce the baddie a little more leisurely, I think. And otherwise it's a reaction shot and doesn't mess with the plot.

Incidentally, even in its first iteration I did a revised panel, on page two (panel eight) to help the story along a bit better. I'd reproduce that, but the original sequence and panel (if there was one?0 are now lost to the ages. Maybe there wasn't one, and I just shuffled things around a bit. I only remember this because it was the first time I did that with a strip. Certainly wasn't the last.

Oh, and Haggerty is apparently inspired by a Tim Brooke Taylor character? Rest in Peace, sir.

 Radio Rezzie, everyone!

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