I hope nobody had their hopes up for several pages of intense basketball action. Instead, we’re skipping the action to get right to the action. I don’t think Maki’s going to put up with this from Yoinks for long, though, so expect things to slow back down a bit in the next page.

So this is an idea I had a while ago, but never did anything with. I couldn’t tell you where it started, but the image of Maki and Yoinks playing some one-on-one just felt kinda right to me. I didn’t have anywhere to use the concept, really, but after doing Closing Time I decided to try and make this work following the approach I did for that comic. This page is a little more complex than any I did for Closing Time, and it won’t be the way the rest of the comic looks, but I wanted to get some stuff out of the way so the rest of the pages can be focused on the action.