I guess Willie isn’t the only one who is jealous … :3
I myself generally don’t appreciate it when artists apologise for their art, so I’m just going to mention casually that I had to keep up a pace of at least two pages per day when I was working on this scene. (Luckily they talk so much that the speech bubbles filled out a quite large part of the page … X_x)
I haven’t talked much about the “familiar” and “totem” animals of the shaman and wizard characters, and if I did, it might be a spoiler for the sequel. But Aeron’s is the wolf, so instinctively he might indeed perceive a doggie as a potential rival … :3
I worry too much about “talking heads” pages, but then readers point out their favourite expressions and quotes on precisely those pages. We have strong characters, we love ’em, it shows!
I actually like “talking heads” pages, but here I worried that I wouldn’t get their precious expressions right because of time pressure. 🙁 But I guess drawing nonstop has the upside of uninterrupted “flow” … V^(oo)^V