Ugh, straight from some redraws I was really pleased with in the last one (like the Chinese food) to some terrible ones here. The background on that splash page, ugh... I swear it felt like a photo run through genAI, and with my meagre skills it wasn't much fun to work with.
Anyhow, rant over. Three parts to this chapter, and the others are a bit simpler visually, so fingers crossed I won't take forever with them. I just like having at least one series where I'm doing everything (fonts, proper redraws, all the SFX, the lot).