Sisiphus Returns

It seems kind of fitting that I've now illustrated this concept three times. It's as though, just as I'm nearing the summit of achievement...

Anyway, as I've said before, I decided to revisit this one (again) because I'd been planning to do that for a while and then last week, Taffeta Darling (a local celebrity), asked me about a poster of it at the Dallas Webcomics Expo. And so that gave me the perfect opportunity to get off my duff and actually revisit it.

This is version 3 now. I polled my watchers to see how they felt about version 2 and they pretty well thumbed their noses at it in favor of the original. And that's why I went back to the drawing board a 3rd time.

Here's a side-by-side of the 3 versions (I tweaked the facial expressions on this last version after the fact and you can see the difference in this side-by-side as well).