Before pencilling the pages, Ryan does fairly detailed thumbnails to show me how he plans to lay out the script. Though these look pretty sketchy compared to finished art, they are actually a lot more detailed than some artist's layouts.

For page ten, Ryan followed the script very closely in the layouts, with a pretty conventional treatment, including the transition to the next scene at the bottom. When it came to the final drawing, he added the panel of the roses lying on the ground, which became a motif throughout the comic. He also came up with a new take on the last panel - a design he used earlier in the first Spike and Dru comic.