This scene is simply all about sacrificing oneself in order to save the day, and I thought was a great way for the longest-running version of the Timeman to bow out. I also put his 'demise' in early to leave me with plenty of room to give the character, one who had started life as a completely hand-drawn and coloured drawing, both a proper send off and handover to his successor.
In addition it allowed me to include one of my favourite advantages of computer art programmes, the 'flashback'. As I was able to digitally scan and manipulate two inked drawings of the earlier Timemen and incorporate them into a panel where the ailing Rambler saw his predecessors and sought their approval for his solution to the Enemy's time destruction device.
The Rambler may have saved the Earth's time-stream but at just what cost to himself. Battered and burnt, have the Timeman's adventures finally come to a fiery end. Or is this just the start of something new..?
In addition it allowed me to include one of my favourite advantages of computer art programmes, the 'flashback'. As I was able to digitally scan and manipulate two inked drawings of the earlier Timemen and incorporate them into a panel where the ailing Rambler saw his predecessors and sought their approval for his solution to the Enemy's time destruction device.
The Rambler may have saved the Earth's time-stream but at just what cost to himself. Battered and burnt, have the Timeman's adventures finally come to a fiery end. Or is this just the start of something new..?
