The faces on his torso imply possession. His body language implies that it's willing. It's not great, but I'd give a weak "keep until better image is suggested."
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Weak keep.
(Annoyed grunt)
Let's keep this one.
I still prefer the current.
Keet cleanupI like a lot better. Their shared body language gets across "willing". The boy and his ghost look more like willing companions than current, which looks like a demonic possession he's just accepting.
Koichi really steals? No dignity.I don't see any channeling there, it just looks like a memory of a character or Call-Forward or something like that.
Maybe something from these pages? (Beasts of Burden)
These links aren't working for me so you'll have to upload.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupAs jpgs because they were too big when I tried uploading them as pngs, but I didn't want to shrink them because of readability:
Maybe just...
(Annoyed grunt)
Tentative for 17. It's slightly hard to parse the bottom panel, but I think it's an improvement over the current.
17 is good. The top panel has a little speech balloon tail, but that can be cropped out if need be.
I'd like to apologize for all this.for 17 although I agree that that bottom panel's a little truncated.
Wanted to give this a couple days for any alternate takes on Beast of Burden. Crowner's hooked.
Votes bump, two in green and one in consensus range.
Crown Description:
It doesn't really look like he's channeling anything, it looks like he's just standing in a cloud of dust, JAFAAC.
Koichi really steals? No dignity.