We All Have Rawwrs Together

I'm working on the bonus story, Refulgence of Refuge," and the final panel has to do quite a bit of heavy lifting. If you're familiar with book 19 then you know (spoiler alert) that a civilization of feathered raptor-oids among Earth's dinosaurs was rescued by an advanced civilization. Refulgence of Refuge" gives us the details of this rescue, and because of the title, which literally means shininess of the safe place," I need to make the some panels, especially the last one, live up to the word refulgent."

Back when the only version of THE LION KING was the original animated feature Sandra and I came up with a term to describe certain kinds of triumphant endings: we all have rawwrs together." And of course the JURASSIC PARK franchise features several iconic closing scenes in which a dinosaur (the t. rex, usually) goes rawwr" with a cool backdrop.

So, the closing panel needed some shiny and some roaring. I'm not revealing the entire thing here, but I'm happy to share the rawwr" part of the panel.

How close am I to being finished? In lieu of a progress bar, here's a spreadsheet full of tick-boxes.

My goal is to finish everything during the first week of March, and then race through the various editorial, commentary, and marginalia tasks for Book 19 in time to send it to the printer at the end of March.