I’ve gotten too accustomed to my little inking routine- Place the pencils on the light table, affix some low-tack tape, drop down a fresh sheet of heavy drawing paper, take out my lettering pens…

Hold on. This one has no word balloons.

It’s been a while since I did a Hubris cartoon with no word balloons. The last one I can think of was the one with the twisty borders filled with Hubris’ nervous dreamscape. I don’t think that one had a word balloon…

Of course, the concept and layout of that one was different enough that I wasn’t surprised when there wasn’t any lettering to do.

This one took me by surprise, somehow.

It’s been a long day.