arena of death! yay!

Originally, it was scripted that the wife’s beloved Puman would leap from the stands. and in this strips flashback, we would see her petting a black cat and saying “well if he’ll catch rats, he’ll be my favorite from now on”
but. seemed a bit too perfect. and seemed to imply that the kitten became a puma became a man. which is goofy?
i dunno. maybe it’s all goofy.
I thought it’d be better to work in something I couldn’t fit into the main flashback – which is that he has a collection of DNA from almost every animal on earth. thus explaining all the animal-men, in an isolated mountain beneath the apocalypse. I’d like to think that any geneticist who could clone an animal would have a private store of all animal DNA. wee.

Uh, but I replaced Puman. with another member of the “queen’s guard.” This is what the little crown thing is meant to symbolize. I just haven’t drawn it on the queen’s guard before (yet). sigh. sorry.

I had thought it would be cool to have a big sweaty pig man in the ring, verses the pig of man. Like something out of a Hostel movie. or a Manhunt video game.
but I ended up drawing more of a wild boar man. i dunno why. hmm.

p.s. maybe I should have shown the stick breaking in the last strip. as it is, you’d probably say “why not go get your stick staff again?”