page 652 – Getting Down to Business
There, see? I TOLD you guys I’d get another page done this week! It’s amazing how many comics you can crank out when you don’t have to worry about little things like “backgrounds” or “using more than three colors”! There isn’t another Voting Incentive today, though, but come on. The current one’s only a day old. It’s still fresh, right?
And hey, we’ve got some gimmicky panel shapes again. How long has it been since we last saw THAT in one of these comics? Feels downright nostalgic now…
Oh, and Layla just turned down some free money. Up is now Down. Light is Dark. Everything you’ve ever known is wrong.
(Historical Notes: The SmackJeeves version of this page has Layla saying “a decade ago” instead of the more vague “years ago.” It AMAZES me that not one person commented on this wildly uncharacteristic statement of a solid, measurable length of time for something. WELL YOU ALL MISSED YOUR CHANCE! IT’S GONE FOREVER NOW! MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!)
So we can’t make a comment about you making a comment about a minor error that nobody thought overly significant, partially due to the fact that it could be true? Interesting perspective on what we can and cannot comment on here.
I just love that you gave me the courtesy of calling it an “error” and not “deliberate and intentional bad idea.”
The thing is, “a decade ago” actually is pretty vague already, the way most people tend to throw out something like that in conversation they usually mean “roughly ten years plus or minus a huge margin of error so really anywhere from about 7 to 13 more or less, depending on whether I want to exaggerate or minimize the apparent time interval”. And we already knew it was very roughly that amount of time, since we saw Li’l Layla’s approximate age in her flashback images. So that’s totally why we didn’t comment on it. It definitely wasn’t because we weren’t paying attention and didn’t notice. Nope. Not at all.
I’m pretty sure that’s actually what I was thinking at the time, but it just struck me as not coming across that way when I went back and read it this go ’round. Maybe it’s one of those things that can sound vague when spoken but comes across as more concrete when written?
or as Layla’s dad taught her as a young child “don’t leave anything concrete in writing where it could be used as Evidence against you in the future”