MOTORMOUTH COMICS

they did a great job on me, i'm completely reformed!

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A title-card that reads, "Motormouth Comics presents - Growing Pains number thirty. The Search for the Something Underground that's Gonna come up and carry me". Beneath the text Lile is being hoisted up by six different hands that are protruding from the ground. She is laughing and has her head thrown back in joy.
First page of the comic, Lile is in a large hole of her own making, shown in a cross-section. Her teeth are gritted as she throws a shovel of dirt over her shoulder. Text beside her reads, "I hit rock bottom and I just kept digging."
Second page of the comic, two different cells are arranged in a diagonal from left to right down the page. The top is a zoomed out cross-section of Lile's hole she is digging, with the words "down, down. down" following after her as she digs further into the earth. The second cell is a close up of Lile frowning as she looks off into the middle-distance, her face and torso covered in dirt. Text beside her reads "hoping to strike gold".
Third page of the comic. Steeling herself, Lile is shown going for another shovel of dirt, text beside her reading "I know if I just keep going I'll find something,"
Fourth page of the comic. The text continues, ... "but it's too dark to see if I hold rocks or rubies." The text is white against a black coloured in background, beneath which are hands cupping a dirty handful of both rocks and crystalline structures. Beneath this frame is another block of black graphite, featuring white text across it that reads, "There's something down here, trust me."
Final Page of the comic. A cross-section of the now very deep and thin hole Lile has dug, with her working hard as it curves to the right. Meanwhile, to the left of her is a glittering vein of gold extending the length of her attempts to mine into the earth but untouched by her path. It is likely she will never discover what was there waiting for her all along.

GROWING PAINS, #30 | The Search for the Something Underground that’s Gonna Come Up and Carry Me