Sparrow’s Song, Page 2

PANEL 1

Close-up of a mans face partially shown, with Rachel visible in the background reading a book. She looks uncomfortable.

PANEL 2

A nighttime scene showing a crescent moon through a window. Items sit on a bedside table.

PANEL 3

Rachel and Sparrow lie together in bed at night, moonlight casting through the window. Sparrow has short light hair and appears muscular.

RACHEL: "Hey..."

SPARROW: "Yeah, babe?"

RACHEL: "I was thinking. We have been..."

RACHEL: "...doing things for awhile now."

RACHEL: "What are we?"

I love the lighting in that las panel. It came out just how I wanted it.

Sparrow’s in that awkward time where you’ve been seeing someone for awhile, but neither of you have had “the talk” about “what ‘we’ are.” Oh boy.

Comments (Archived)

  1. Luka

    I remember this comic. It made me start to feel bad for Sparrow. I believe it shows that she isn’t as shallow as many readers thought. That’s only my take on it, though.

    • Rachel the Great

      Yeah, that’s what I was going for. As I got older, it got harder to write Sparrow as “the straw woman.” I was making friends and living some of my own mistakes. I saw women judging each other when we should have been standing by each other. So I wanted to show that to my characters, too.