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Thanks, Matt!
We definitely didn't discuss it, so we'd have to ask Elena to know for sure (and it's a couple panels among hundreds if not thousands she's drawn, so I wouldn't really expect her to remember).
However, because I consider Elena a great storyteller, MY take is that she assessed the page (which was really tough and probably as…
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Thanks, Matt!
We definitely didn't discuss it, so we'd have to ask Elena to know for sure (and it's a couple panels among hundreds if not thousands she's drawn, so I wouldn't really expect her to remember).
However, because I consider Elena a great storyteller, MY take is that she assessed the page (which was really tough and probably asking too much to be reasonable - it happens sometimes!) and realized she wasn't going to be able to get everything in there, and so she prioritized the important things - e.g. she might have liked my opening with Arcade making a joke...but she understood it was less important than other things on the page that we had to convey. And as much as I love jokes (including my own), she was absolutely right.
She made the right call for sure.