Page 41 Revisited: Buddy Weighs His Options -- Friends or Family

Today I returned to page 41, in which Buddy in trying to figure out what to do: should he stay with his loyal friends, or should the join his family in the dangerous migration north? I redrew most of this image, improved the composition and cleaned up the line work. Whenever I return to pictures I drew some time ago, I’m always surprised that the line work needs to much cleanup — I was completely satisfied when I originally checked the page off my TODO list.