”The Viper” is an older comic (2017) about even older characters. I came up with Zadar when I was 11, whereas Hemming (addressed by his last name) was my childhood friend’s character. I still occasionally think of these two and their horrible, toxic relationship fondly, so you could think of this comic as a homage of sorts. Of all the things a child’s mind can dream up…
Looking at these pages now, I feel like this rougher style fits these characters quite nicely. Zadar comes off as the victim in this scenario, but I can assure you, he’s almost as bad Hemming. I always thought of him as a viper with a pretty boy’s face.