{scene: A low-saturation, almost-sepia-toned image showing an excavation in a cave. An adventurer-type stands supervising a worker digging in a pit.}
1 Fedora: How long?
1 Henchman: Nearly there...
2 Henchman: {holding up a magnificent gold cross} Here it is!
3 {camera zooms out to show two out-of-focus figures in the foreground, watching the action from a hidden position behind a rock}
3 Fedora: {admiring the gold cross} At last...
4 {focus changes to show the figures in the foreground are two boy scouts}
4 Young Monty: The Cross of Coronado!
4 Friend: Monty?
4 Young Monty: That belongs in a museum!
4 [caption]: {at bottom of frame} UTAH 1912

This is a very special strip. Some readers may recall I recently sold my old film camera. Before parting with it, I decided to shoot one last roll of film.

This is the first Irregular Webcomic! ever to be shot on film, rather than digitally. I figured Monty's flashback sequence would make a fitting subject. I originally planned to sepia-tone the images, but it didn't look quite right, so I just lowered the saturation a lot instead. I also made the speech bubbles very close to each other in hue - something I normally avoid as much as possible - to maintain the low saturation brown toning effect. I realise they're harder to tell apart this way, but this is what people had to put up with in the early days of photo webcomic technology! (And yes, I know the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was in full colour. Hey, let me have a little fun with the production.)

The great thing about shooting with a high quality SLR camera is the control I have over the depth of field, as you can see in the last two panels. That effect would be trickier to achieve with the cheap digital I normally use for IWC (possible, but trickier.)

The bad thing about film is that I don't get to see what the images will turn out like until after the film is developed. Fortunately, every shot I took worked pretty much as I'd planned.