So for practice I redrew the first page of the most infamous chapter in Mobius: 25 Years Later, but of course with some tweaks!
I redesigned Abby to look more like a Mobian. Goodbye photo-realistic koala maid. I also made her pose a bit more sassy because she deserves it.
Got rid of the weird apron and put Julie-Su in her regular clothes. I don't think she was ever actually shown cooking in the chapter so there's no point to her wearing that weirdly sexy apron... I also made her ponytail a bit smaller so she wouldn't block half the page with it.
Instead of the weird TV screen they use for video calls, I gave Julie-Su a more futuristic device that can show a hologram of the other line. It also gives a reason for why she's holding a tablet in the original, because I also don't think that was ever explained either.
I rewrote some of the dialogue to sort of get to the point? In the sense of the fact they're having an actual conversation instead of droning on and on about the same subject the whole time (In the next page I'd imagine Julie-Su gets to the actual reason of why she called Sally so the story can move beyond their dinner plans). Also, in the original, Sally states "we have a problem" but then she never actually specifies what her issue is. Lastly, I changed the mention of Lara-Su's supposed diet since it never comes up anywhere else in the story.
I tried coloring the page, but it look a bit weird, so I left it black-and-white. However I did color-code the speech bubbles to add some flair and ease for the reader to know who's talking.
I did end up tracing the background of the original though. I'm not exactly up to par with my BG work yet. Forgive me, background critics.
The original is below the cut.
