Superior. I thought this was Stan Sakai at first.

Thank you. Sakai is a major complement. The strong character-design and image-layout is usually designed inside Collins' pencil sketches. I'm still learning things, and was surprised at how it came out as I was inking. It was all suggested inside the original pencils.

This is some of your best work. Crisp, clear, interesting. And of course Jerry Collin's excellent layout.

But it's 2017...

This takes place c. 1935.

Yeah, yeah, I was just being silly.

_{I'm a sometime Spontoon Island contributor}

Well, thats what I get for chiming in. Sorry.

It's cool.

They don't have to worry about being thirsty.

I feel like those two at work most days...

V.

Someone's got to do these ceremonial observations. Even if they have to do both parts.

WOW!
You're inks with Jerry's pencils are AMAZING!
But then you always WERE an amazing inker. :D

I really like this Ken. It seems that "Uncle Poko" is experienced and world wise, owing to his "Modern" cap and recalling the rainy season of "'17." I've been trying to work out a Garetta Foxtaur character who keeps falling out of my pencil, who I've named "RainWalker." I originally sketched him wrapped from his lower waist down in bands of fabric, but I like this idea of shaggy coats made from leaves or grass better. Less time consuming to put on or remove, and there's materials to make more on hand.

Yes. That's Jerry grooving in his pencil ideas on finding a back-story that would fit about 1935 (and 2017!). The coat-style is probably you, Jerry, & me all thinking of NW American-Indian rain-capes, where the fibers were shredded from the inside of tree-bark (long shredded cedar-bark fibers is what I remember reading). This was cold-weather, stormy weather, & general drizzle & rain-gear. That coastal nations source would have them wearing 'kilts' or skirts of those shredded strips of bark hanging over a belt. Then they would have a layered rain-cape that would go over their shoulders. I don't recall ever seeing details of the tailoring. There may have been a cloth or leather lining, but the main idea seemed to be that the strings of fiber would shed water, yet allow ventilation while working.

Of course long leaves or grass might be able to do the same water-shedding. That may have been a major reason for the meme of the Pacific Island 'grass-skirts'. I've seen some write-ups about the 'grass-skirts' being mostly given up by the 1930s except when used for dance costume - the grass-skirts swished & emphasized visual movements + also provided a rhythmic noise to go with the dancing.

(Maybe too much speculation, and not enough research?)