Starting with a reprise from last week, Jules Rivera changes her camera angle to reveal Tess Tigress standing behind the trio, apparently using the benefit of camouflage to assist with her eavesdropping. Never mind that Rivera forgot to apply the camo pattern to Tess’s suit in panel 1. Still, it provides a plausible cover for her Big Reveal as she lowers the boom.

But what’s going on in panel 3? Rivera revamps one of her more interesting compositions: putting the primary characters in the background in order to focus on something outside of their vision and awareness.  Sometimes the foreground subject is completely irrelevant. In this case, it’s a herd of razorbacks standing off to the side! Looks like the Hog-Hunting Heroines can avoid the possible flood and save some time and trouble by hunting on Jess and Tess’s property!

But where did the storm clouds go?

Art Dept. Originally, Rivera tended to eschew shading, hatching, and similar techniques that emphasize volume, light-and-dark, or thematic atmosphere. A few years ago, she got tired of drawing Mark’s facial stubble and substituted halftone (e.g. ben-day dots) shading. Since then, she has slowly expanded the technique to other parts of the drawing, where we now begin to see a sort of textured look to the panels, replacing the stark linearity of her earlier approach.