Sly and Penelope's last conversation

Needless to say, this scene only works if you assume the Sly Cooper series ended at game#3 (like I prefer to do).



ARTIST’S NOTES:

---One of the things that always bugged me about Sly 3 was how SLY flew the plane in the dogfight against Doctor M instead of Penelope. I understand why it was done from a gameplay & narrative perspective. But it still sucked that the player never got to do an airplane/dogfight mission where Penelope flew the plane instead of Sly (hell, even the 2-Player dogfight mini-game gives CARMELITA a plane instead of Penelope! Seriously, WTF!?).

When I played the game as a kid, it REALLY irked me that Penelope never even tried to volunteer for that mission. Not only was she the more qualified pilot (and she wasn’t recovering from a freakin’ head injury at the time); but her piloting ability was half the reason she was recruited to the gang to begin with! So why didn’t they use HER on the one mission that required a skilled fighter pilot?

Anyhoo, the scenario in the above comic was my way of explaining why Sly went up there and Penelope didn’t INSIST on flying that mission in his place. I always imagined that something like this went on off-screen at some point. I just didn’t have enough confidence in my ability to draw the characters to make something like this until now.


---I get really nervous when I attempt to tackle “drama” in a comic. It’s VERY hard to draw/write emotional scenes without making it come across as schmaltzy or melodramatic. I hope I did OK with this one


---It took me FOREVER to figure out what I wanted to do with the last panel. In the end, none of the dialogue I wrote sounded right or came across as a good way to end it. So I opted to just leave the scene silent and allow the viewers to fill in the blanks.