page 1389 – stop trying to sit out this plot arc
WHEW! We’re back to normal, no half-finished pages this time. At least, for now, anyway. More on that in a bit. In the mean time, I need to own up to doing something risky. I was ABOUT to go binging through the pages right around the short pants squad’s debut to double-check who actually said what, just to make sure the back and forth in this page was accurate… but then I didn’t, on the theory that it didn’t actually matter. Cap’n Crosby just wants somebody to blame right now, and Layla wants to blame somebody ELSE. If one or both of them is misremembering what actually went down, that actually makes things MORE funny! …unless I’ve forgotten something so egregious that the knowledge of it is too annoying for the joke to be funny anymore. If so… whoops.
But that brings us to the other bit: I always hate having to do this, ESPECIALLY at the start of a new month, but there’s not gonna be a new TWC Voting Incentive this week. Now, ya’ll will still get more content this Friday, and that’s the problem. I’ve got a Halloween comic due… and I haven’t even STARTED work on it yet. So, yeah, getting that AND a new Incentive done at the same time is unlikely to go well, especially since I’ll ALSO be doing the whole end-of-the-month Patreon scramble as well. OH! But speaking of which, I’m FINALLY going to have another Far Out There short story up on Friday too! It’s technically already finished… sort of. I really need to give it another once-over before posting it, and need to go do something else to reset my brain before doing that, BUT it ought to be up by the end of the month!
What Layla did, Cap’n, was persuade you that it was potentially profitable to have the kids on the ship. When taken outside of context. The other thing she did was make the boys behave themselves until Mariska arrived, and get reasonably upset at their actions. As the boys have never actually accepted responsibility for the negative consequences of their own actions (and often pretend those consequences should really be considered a positive), they’re obviously running from their problems.
This is honestly the best result of this situation, with the only better “result” being the practically delusional “Mariska manages to get the boys to return everything quietly and without issue”.
Yeah, the more I look at it, the only part of all this that’s truly “odd” is that The Cap’n isn’t fussing at Mariska at the moment… except there’s nowhere near as much plenty up annoyance with her over other things as there is for Layla (YET) to motivate the outburst.
The (YET) is actually telling, and worrying. This is unlikely to be Mariska’s first time visiting Ichabod in person since he started travelling on the Cap’n ship, so either previous annoyance with her dissipated with her leaving, or Mariska somehow managed to pin all the blame on Ichabod. Particularly since Layla hasn’t been shown to do all that much to have earnt the Cap’n’s ire.
I believe the phrase is “in medias res”, but I’ll just figure you deliberately made Blip get it wrong. 😀
Ah, the joys of spellcheck “helping” me out…