Oh gee, another wrinkle! (Also Daphne Rickets’s husband is really pretty awful.)
Two installments remain in this little storyline, posted this early AM, September 13, 2013, anno domini.
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I like the George R. R. Martin books too. What do YOU think has happened to Jon Snow, gentle readers?
There are three more strips in this little storyline (this one posted September 10, 2013), and then another storyline featuring INEZ, some other comics, and then a big Grand Finale to the Year One stuff, at which point all the gap should be filled between this and the ongoing Year Two stuff. Then everything will be ontologically calm in my world (except that The Man Who Hates Fun still needs an ending, and I never finished the third game in my ZZT trilogy when I was 15, so.)
This is the saddest thing about Zelda, that you can not just go out and find terrifying places to explore as a kid, I imagine.
I don’t have a ton to say about this one beyond that I really like Mona’s statue so much
There are more of these backdated strips coming (actually posted on September 8 2013)! One should be up tomorrow, for example, and more strips in the like REAL TIMELINE will go up in short order after.
Another backdated strip (from the lofty vantage point of September 4, 2013.) This one starts a MINI-STORYLINE OH WOW.
I want to make a ridiculous cast page to contain info like this, but the kids are ADAM and LUCAS RICKETS. Their mother is DAPHNE RICKETS. I don’t remember what their father’s name is; he will make an appearance SHORTLY.
This one was drawn a while ago but I was nervous about running it for various reasons. This is silly, though.
Obviously Cathy is being an awful creep here. But she is being a creep in a way I identify with, and maybe you will too? Like it is sad, living in the South, to not really be in an environment where there are a lot of trans people around, so it’s like when someone shows up who seems to maybe be a trans lady, it’s like whoaaa what if that lady and I were to be FRIENDS and talk about things we have in common, such as oppression! Yet it’s this awful catch-22, because it is really not proper to speculate about whether someone is or isn’t trans. It’s not like a Golden Rule thing because I personally don’t mind people doing this to me, esp. if it’s another trans person (and generally not that much if it’s not another trans person as long as they follow the basic rule of “never ask ever.”) There should be an Emily Post book maybe
The joke is also more about how Cathy is being an awful jerkface to Mona. I am just so paranoid about ever writing about My People ever for some reason, and thus have to include fun little essays like this one
such fun!
Oh no Mona doesn’t like video games! She’s clearly a jerk!
Not much to say; still in NYC; this post was made by an automatic schedule script from a full week IN THE PAST. If anything neat has happened since then, LET’S ALL FIND OUT ABOUT IT ON THIS COMING TUESDAY TOGETHER!
I’m in New York right now, June 4, hanging out with cool people at The Dalloway maybe! Or maybe it is Wednesday, June 5, and I’m at the excellent DOUBLE FIST reading with Chavisa Woods! Depending on the day, you ought to come to one or the other of these events! (Also, my book, The Dream of Doctor Bantam, either won or didn’t win a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction last night.)
New comic June 6 (Thursday)!
Oh no, a mystery, you guys
Bootlegger turns: I learned about these from a fun editing client! Basically you apply some kind of horrifying engine brake that cuts all forward motion instantly, allowing you to turn via horrible inertia without really losing any momentum. It is the kind of thing everyone should probably learn to do, though I will not actually attempt this.
So there will be comics Tuesday and Thursday next week! They are done, even! They’ll update automatically while I am away from my desk in NYC for the Lambda Literary Awards and various events! It is the magic of computing! Please enjoy!
Hahaha TRUE STORY, though to be fair I was with a friend at the time, so it wasn’t 100% sitting alone INVENTING FRIENDS. Though I guess in a way, this entire project of drawing comics and writing novels is pretty much that. My entire life is pretty much devoted to INVENTING FRIENDS at this point. I need to finish this post and go lie down now, thinking about that.
SO NEWS: my question was finally answered at Band vs Band! I also did this alternate universe fan art of me an’ Kathleen in a mysterious band called TRASH MYSTICS 1994:
If only this could be like actual universe/if only I could play the UPRIGHT BASS, or really any instrument.
Other news: I’m going to be in New York on Friday! Any New York pals who want to hang out, please make this intention clear! (Also, please come to my reading with Chavisa Woods at Bluestockings, if you are not already aware of it!) (Also also, please read this REALLY EXCELLENT INTERVIEW WITH CHAVISA at Lambda Literary!)
Next comic should be up tomorrow/Thursday. I’ll try to queue up updates for Tues/Thurs next week also–if it doesn’t happen, I’ll let you know tomorrow.