Action Hat

The moral of the story is that Mendoza is the bad guy because he looked at that cool explosion.

So, I tried to use Mendoza’s huge mustache to serve the expressive duties of his mouth. Maniacal laughter is kind of pushing that, so if I had to do this strip over I would have composed that panel differently to have Menodza’s eyes doing more work. I was a bit to preoccupied with establishing that

You may ask why the hyper wealthy Mendoza is driving a van. To this I would ask how a Mercedes-Benz could provide a canvas large enough to be worthy of a self portrait of the Mendoza.

I love how goofy the solution to this crisis is. There is so much setup, the entire series up to this point, and the resolution is so incidental. That may be disappointing, however, would you expect anything else from this series?

Lynda became defined by the course of this project, ordinarily that leads to a poor character, but I think it kind of works for Action Hat since everyone by necessity becomes defined by how they reflect off of Action Hat. Lynda grows more passionate overtime because that’s how she interacts with Action Hat, likewise Partner

These strips were originally released once a week, so it would have been half a year that we’ve been on this cliff hanger. That was an intentional setup for this 4th wall break here.