A bit of a visual tangent in the last panel so it’s hard to make out her arm. If I were to redo it I would make the arm white against the grey or redraw it.

This was one of those “rush it to finish deadline,” pages, hence the super simple backgrounds.

Body language is sometimes the only thing a comic artist can use to convey tone, so I tried to show Malchia as disinterested and removed.

I love the chick chowing down on the left-hand side of panel 3.

This is one of my favorite pages in this story because of the subtlety of cannibalism.

If I were to draw this today, that banquet hall would have a lot more detail.

Very different than the last story and set in an entirely different world. I think if I choose to chase this dream sometime in the future, I’d continue with this version of the character.

So that was my original Red Dahlia. I hope you enjoyed it. For my senior project in college, I changed a lot about the story and set it in a sci-fi setting instead of a modern one like this story. Consider this a “sketch,” of the character.