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Ugh. Screwed up the perspective in the bottom left panel. At least I know what I did wrong.

Otherwise, I love this page. I had fun with the perspective lines, and panel four was the only real screwup. Also, let the record state that I did not have to turn the page upside-down to draw Gabe in panel four (which is probably why the coat's buttons are on the wrong side, but that isn't enough to get me down). The "whooo" SFX was drawn by hand, and only needed a little touching up in photoshop.

I can't believe it took me five pages to draw a mech of some sort. That was fun.

Comments and critique appreciated. Lemme know what you think.

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The Insectis of the Ahnk'Ator Empire use a time system of their own design. It's mostly similar to the standard 12-hour clock, with two significant differences:

First, in addition to noon being "Meridian," midnight is "Nox Meridian," abbreviated simply as N. This divides the day into four quadrants of six hours each: AN, PN, AM, PM. Second, "Ante" hours define the amount of time until noon or midnight, and count down as time passes.

One other subtle difference is that system has a zero-hour, similar to the 24-hour clock. This means that the 6-Hour clock never actually reaches 6 o'clock: once the clock counts up to 5:59:59 PN, it switches to 5:59:59 AM, and starts counting down.

Gabriel's watch, as seen in the last four panels there, has a series of four rotating cylinders for the daily quadrants, hours, minutes, and seconds. Each is divided into six sections, except for the quadrant cylinder which is divided into four. Each section has a diagonal slash and five vertical lines. Each slash is one hour, ten minutes, or ten seconds, and each vertical line is five minutes, two minutes, or two seconds. As time passes, the cylinders turn. A thin wire across the faces of the cylinders act as the "hands" to pinpoint the exact time (For odd numbers of minutes and seconds, the wire is between vertical lines). The watch is powered by a small magical battery, and has Quartz-Movement. Gabriel made it by hand, from scratch.

The watch reads "00H, 31M, 15S" because originally, lunch hour was going to start at 00.30 AM (AKA: 11:30), but I changed it to noon at the last minute. All that effort to develop a technically accurate time system, and I slap myself with a continuity error.

At no point will there ever be a test on this.