page 1230 – It sounds worse when I say it out loud
Well, I technically didn’t get this page finished before the convention, but I got ENOUGH of it done for there not to be much to wrap up once I got back. And it’s a good thing, too, cos I’m SO worn out right now that if there were any serious work left on this page, it just wouldn’t get done until some time later in the week. Heck, I’m just now noticing as I write this that I forgot to set the publish date for Monday morning instead of right now on Sunday night, and I don’t even care. Fiddling with those few controls feels like too much work right now. Thankfully, this was the last full con I’m going to all year, and I’m SO glad to go into full hermit mode for a while.
Anyway, some odd business: next Monday will be the 4th of July, meaning ol’ American me has a special holiday page planned… except that it’s ALSO the usual New Comic Day. Don’t worry, we’ll still have page 1231 next week, I’m just not sure what day it’ll land on. I worry a bit about promising it on Tuesday, since I don’t know how long Monday’s page will take, but I also don’t want to push it back TOO far and interfere with the TWC Voting Incentive on Thursday, especially since I just skipped one week already. I dunno, watch the comments on next Monday and we’ll see what’s happening then. I’ll try to at least ink both pages in the same session, that might help with time management. We’ll see.
Simple. She always puts her two kids first, and other children are ranked somewhere like 40th to 103rd place, depending on the circumstances, situation & whatever shiny creations are currently in her mind. Though 103rd place might be a bit too close to 1st place for where they rank in Tabitha’s list of priorities when she’s concentrating on a complicated science project…
But, still, anything that happens to her zombie-babies, she WILL destroy anyone and everything REMOTELY related to it. She’s a Nice Mad-Scientist while Alphonse & Bridget are what keeps her nice & friendly. Something happens to them, and her “destroy worlds” switch goes off, and you get to see what happens when she actually bothers to weaponise her actions. Warning, even Solar Systems might not survive.
It also helps that Bridget & Alphonse are already impossibly mature and well-behaved kids to start with. Half the time Tabitha doesn’t even NEED to be that “good” at raising them.