Fourth in a series of six commissions for  backlash, this one finds Jake Ryan out traversing the same muddy mess that has claimed the shoes of his counterparts. And now it's his turn to lose his size 16 Tevas in the sucking mud. How so? Aren't the straps supposed to keep them securely fastened to the wearer's feet? Well they should, but since Jake wears almost nothing but open-toed footwear, it would be safe to assume that this particular pair is old enough that its Velcro lose effectiveness over time, allowing enough debris to work its way in, causing them to let go just as Jake gives them a good yank following some unexpected sinkage (with all the foot traffic here, the mud is just getting deeper the more people trudge through it). Or maybe the rubber surrounding the base of the straps has finally disintegrated and let go (I've seen that happen on especially old ones). In any case, Jake gets to join the ranks of the "de-shoozed"

Technical: I changed tactics with this one. Seeing the issue with inkscape's inability to export bitmaps without antialiasing (see DeShoozed: Sammy for a description of that 'feature', and the fact that vector coloring a figure with dynamic lineart takes longer, I tried inking this one using Krita. I still had to de-antialias the lineart so I could flood-fill the ink work, but bucket fills take a lot less time than vectoring blobs of color, allowing this one to progress from inks to completed color in about a day.

Pencil on bristol, inked in Krita and colored in Micrografx Picture Publisher 10. Eight layers excluding attribution text, 207MB in uncompressed form.