What a let down... as opposed to a throwdown. Yeah okay so this ain't the first time I discovered an erroneous interpretation of what I thought was a common turn of phrase after looking it up online so as to have a handy hyperlink about what it is that I really mean. Except that it turns out I was wrong all along - not that that's necessarily a fatal flaw.
If you look at the last image posted here of the initial doodles you can see I even mixed up some Shakespearean references, which I think speaks more to the malleable power of evolving tropes that I remembered so wrongly about these half-buried archetypes of cultural subconsciousness (a fairly recent example would be the "Ghee" piece from a couple years back). Which is a another way to say I hope someone out there still gets it. Mostly it's all about the moat anyways.
I know just enough to seem clever but "jack of all trades, master of none" is my fate. Still, as these previous attempts at climbing the same creative wall illustrate, eventually the initial idea will give rise to a fruiting body from the mental compost heap of concepts, if left long enough to ferment.
Also on a closing note, this particular panel for some mysterious reason was one of the most popular in many years. Now that assessment is purely anecdotal, being based solely on only the opinion of two different folk's comments to me directly in person (one being no less an editor). Yes, that is a very small sampling of viewers, but it emphasizes the comparative, relatively outsized impact feedback has when a panel is published and people remember it afterwards whenever crossing paths in person ("Hey that was a good one"). In other words - thanks, it means a lot!
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