Far Out There

Yeesh, even with an extra three days, I still only barely got this page out on the right day. Yes, that’s right. THIS is the page I had to bump back to this week because there was no way I’d have gotten it done on Friday: a bunch of kids sitting on a couch and talking. I know, right?

Well, for once, the problem wasn’t some artistic thing, but purely a writing one. I knew what the basic structure of this page needed to be -Trigger tries to participate and it goes over like a lead balloon- but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out exactly what that would be. It took waaaaaaaaay longer than it should have for me to add the extra ingredient of Trigger unintentionally raining all over their attempt to impress Layla. Youthful humiliation makes EVERYTHING funnier, right?

(Full disclosure: I’ve exhausted my most recent stash of page rough drafts, so I’m having to do these things from the ground every single time, which takes a lot longer than taking a second pass at something I first drew a few weeks ago. And it takes even longer when I’m doing it at the same time as an unusually exhausting Conventional Wisdom update).

EDIT: OOPS! Almost forgot the TWC Voting Incentive! (…well, the link at least. I remembered the Incentive itself, it’s the one thing that actually gets done before noon around here!)

(Historical Notes: Past Me is showing some real gall by have one character in this comic call out another for a story that’s not going anywhere…)