Root Redwing and the Thieves of Kettle Bay

This is probably my favourite panel of the whole story! I decided to use a kind of all-over, abstract design for the sequence rather than panels, to reflect the chaos of what probably only took a minute or two in story time, but had a lot of action to convey. Octopuses are really fun to draw, especially if one can anthropomorphize them a bit and give them expressions. And there’s a bit of a nod to Tin-Tin’s Captain Haddock’s inventive curses with the alliteration here. I think I’m going to have to work on Root’s colourful vocabulary for her future appearances in Mermaid Music!