page 1347 – This Is All Very Well-Adjusted And Positive
I say this every time I do a page with more than two panels, but it REALLY astounds me how much the time and energy required to finish a comic exponentially increases with every extra panel. Even with tiny little doodles like these, nine panels is a LOT of editing and coloring to do for one page. But it really felt necessary to squeeze in as much as I could this time because THIS IS (probably) THE LAST REGULAR FAR OUT THERE PAGE OF 2024! That’s right, after today, we’re plowing straight into a special Thanksgiving comic on Thursday, and then the Christmas stuff begins on Sunday! Admittedly, there’s a SLIGHT chance that I could try to crank out page 1348 on Tuesday the 31st, and then do a New Year’s page the very next day… but it seems far more likely that I’ll be so worn out at the end of the month that I’ll need to just do one comic rather than two in a row. So we’ll probably just have a New Year’s Eve comic on the 31st, then page 1348 will finally happen on January 7th.
In the meantime, I’m almost certainly not going to have the spare brain cells left over to get a new TWC Voting Incentive done THIS week, but they WILL be rolling out through next month. So even if you don’t give a crap about the Christmas stuff, you’ll still have SOME kind of regular (such as it is) Far Out There content to look forward to over the next few weeks.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have multiple more comic pages I need to draw before I pass out again…
Marshall isn’t a part of their group, and made a fancy dinner for numerous people simply because he likes cooking. Additionally, Layla is quite reasonably annoyed at the quartet, the leader of which (Avi) is actively antagonistic to Marshall.
Being friends with Marshall is easy. Being friends with any of the other four almost requires putting Avi into a box and hiding him so that they can have a chance to be themselves.
I mean, I pity Avi because I know that he’s acting out due to wanting direct contact with his parents. But all of the quartet have issues.
Hiro is highly competitive, but almost seems to target above his age and/or weight-class (there are alternatives: such as him actually being ineffectively trained, his inability to focus on one field of exercise causing him to be inferior to specialists that he competes against, or he has some sort of musculature issue that causes him to be physically inferior, be it that he is lacking bio-enhancements others have received, or that he can’t develop the required musculature).
Lynne is similar to Avi in that he wants attention, but he seems to want to get it from older “popular” children, who ignore him.
Tarkus… well, everyone knows Tarkus’s issues, but we don’t actually know their origin, so…
That’s an intriguing idea about Hiro, there. We don’t really have a clear understand of what “performance enhancement” in the Far Out There future entails, but there’s more than enough grounds for us to imagine some really wild stuff. That could have all sorts of implications on Hiro in plenty of different directions (especially since, as we’ve seen, he’s not very good at making decisions for himself)