For panel one, the master is again drawn from a photo of David Bowie:

Initially, I didn't fill in the black of the master's coat and hat. Looking at the page, I thought it needed the black area so went back and made change. I regretted the change as soon as the next page.

The exterior of the house was based on this photo:

I needed a name for a servant and decided upon Osric, who is otherwise a minor character from "Hamlet." The name I heard in my head when I was writing the dialogue was Nigel, but there are no Nigels in "Hamlet."

The dialogue in panel 3 is from Act 2, Scene 2, again.