After the panel of whiteness on page 23, we have an almost entirely black panel taking up the final page. In space, somewhat reminiscent of the final page of my first 24-hour comic, Scourge, pulling back from an earth in its final throes of life. This is like the last page of Scourge in more ways than one, as well, as there's a lot of exposition here as a sort of twist ending which I had to work backward from to figure out how much to reveal elsewhere.
The 6000-year-old Earth thing was deliberate on my part, and I believe present in the original dream as well. Sort of about faith. Once again, it's sort of a splash page, which I guess brings up the number of splash pages in this comic to four, or 24 if you count the borderless panels as meaning no panels (this of course counts the cover, as page 5 features a border between panels when we are first introduced to Africa.)
And the eye is led from box to box through the black after the end of the world, and then: the red of the Redbox, a final repetition of the theme of life.
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