Page Four Last Page On this page Gio suggested several additions/deviations from the script. The first was panel 3, the monitor. He also created a fairly subtle and clever little transition from the TV studio in six back to the governor's study in 7. This could very much end up being my favorite page. And I need to find more excuses for Gio to draw women, cause he makes em perty. And the transition works very well. Lowena's pretty. I can't stop saying that. She may get her own series, just as an excuse to have Gio draw more of her. And he gives our good doctor the gravity he needs. And panel 8 works so much better than I expected, the shadows just add something. I think some of my idiot optimism is drowned out (in a good way) by the art. And panel 9 is just lovely. I did request a couple of minor changes to panel 1 (giving Lowena a jaw and Khalel the rest of his hair), but otherwise this page is just damn beautiful. Next PAGE FOUR;   Panel 1; Leona Hawa sits across from an older African American Professor. She’s wearing a Barbara Walters suit. He wears a brown suit, spectacles and a white and gray beard. They’re sitting in comfortable-looking padded chairs in a sparsely decorated recording studio.   Khalel:    Commissioner Grange was a father to the community. Unfortunately, he didn’t recognize the danger in the company he kept.   Panel 2; Hawa leans forward, recrossing her legs as she taps a pen on her knee.   Hawa:      And you think Hasen had his Deputy Mayor killed?   Panel 3; Khalel treats her gently, despite his passion, as he leans forward, gesturing like a man holding a goblet in his right hand for emphasis.   Khalel:    Hasen’s the man who bent the Ganjaweeds from a nonaggressive assembly of marijuana dealers into a violent, sectarian gang.   Panel 4; Khalel, even more composed, adjusts his eyeglasses.   Khalel:    David Makonnen and I taught at the state university together. He was a chemically dependent eccentric, but he started them to provide ganja for Rastafari religious bynghis. Panel 5; Khalel falls back in his chair, satisfied with his response as Hawa leans forward to redirect her question.   Khalel:    He’d be as upset by their perversion as we are. . Hawa:      But the question of Mayor Hasen’s culpability-   Panel 6; Khalel is almost apologetic. He wishes he knew the answer to her question, but he dances around it very effectively.   Khalel:    I don’t know.   Khalel:    Grange was the only opposition preventing Hasen from controlling the city’s south side. His death is, at best, a happy coincidence for Hasen.    Panel 7; Back in the governor’s study. The governor is still seated, but he sits up, hopeful.   Governor:  What about that precinct we imported from Kaddean?   Governor:  What was it the press call them, the “African Union”?     Panel 8; Dallaire walks in front of the Governor’s desk. Their conversation has become less confrontational; they’ve realized their end goals are the same, and are trying to figure out how to accomplish them. However, Dallaire grimly deflates the Governor’s hope.   Dallaire:  The 53rd. They’re a good group, but they’re undertrained, underfunded, and understaffed.   Dallaire:  They’re a band-aid on a bullet wound.   Panel 9; The governor is being candid, and his long face shows he’s prepared for the worst of news.   Governor:  How bad is it, really?