page 1234 – Can I Have A Little More
I’m not sure if the bigger act being put on here is Tabitha pretending that she wouldn’t go ahead and play dress up with the kids either way just cos the could, or Layla acting like she won’t totally squee over whatever Alphonse ends up wearing.
And yes, I’m totally taking the excuse to draw as many characters as possible differently right now. Gotta make things interesting for myself in as many ways as possible, right? Speaking of drawing differently, I was all excited at the possibility of drawing Layla without the jacket on, so that everybody could see the chibi Princess Rheiko shirt design clearly at least once… and by the time the page was finished, Layla’s pose had shifted around until her arm was totally covering it up. I hate when my art won’t cooperate with me… which is most of the time.
Oh, and eagle-eyed readers might have already noticed there’s a sneaky little call-back to the last time Layla changed outfits lurking somewhere in this page.
Finally, some news. Along the usual reminder to check back Thursday for a new TWC Voting Incentive, and a far LESS usual reminder that there’s more Killer Station of Deadly Doom pages re-posted to the Gallery, I’ve also gotta take a second to talk about Patreon again. I know, I hate it too, but this matters to Far Out There… eventually. Conventional Wisdom’s Weekly Anime Comics are on break for the moment while I give the $5 and up patrons a chance to vote on what show I cover next. In the meantime, the plan is to use that extra bit of free time to FINALLY start posting a new set of Far Out There Mad-Lib comics to Patreon. I’ve had a full set of rough drafts for the set sitting around for MONTHS now, but haven’t had the time to sit down and ink ’em up. Here’s hoping I don’t find any new excuses!
EDIT: New TWC Incentive is up! I didn’t do it on purpose, but I really seem to be settling into a rhythm of “lots of color/no color/lots of color/no color” with these things.
8/1 EDIT: Good news and bad news. The bad news is I kinda burned myself out over the weekend… AGAIN. Yup, it’s the end of the month again. So yeah, today’s page IS in progress, but that progress is pretty slow, so it probably won’t be up until late today. But that’s also where the good news comes in. If you’re not clear what I meant by “the end of the month,” it’s me trying to meet my quota of Patreon material done before people get charged for another month. And THAT means there’s not one but TWO new pages of Far Out There up on Patreon at this very moment! Jenna’s side story continues, AND I finally did actually start up that new miniseries based on that MadLib I sent out months and months ago! And if you were a patron of as little as one dollar a month, you could be reading them both to tide yourself over until I finally get page 1235 done!
Layla, you’re asking the wrong questions. As soon as you started worrying about what might happen, the right question was “What don’t I care about being destroyed?”
True story: that was originally going to be one of her lines, but then I realized that Layla doesn’t have ANYTHING she wouldn’t mind seeing destroyed. Even the grimiest, smelliest old sock is still HER SOCK SO HANDS OFF!
Then transition the question into “What don’t you mind turning into a rag, or dressing Trigger in”. It isn’t all that difficult to twist the question into being something effectively similar.
Okay, fine, I’m being a bit mean to Trigger, we haven’t seen him destroy too much of his wardrobe. My point still stands, though.
That gave me a pretty funny mental image. Layla’d be totally fine dressing Trigger in ragged hand-me-downs in practice, just as something that happens without thinking about it. But if anybody ELSE ever actually suggested doing so out loud, Layla would get really offended and insist on only dressing him in the finest designer clothes because he deserves no less (and clearly, that other person meant it as an insult to them both, don’t ya know)
In which Trigger would then have to destroy some complicated and dangerous piece of machinery due to the danger it presented, practically destroying the worth of the clothing in the process. And, despite having it’s “worth” destroyed in the eyes of the wealthy, it remains his best looking clothing, possibly even looking BETTER on him than before he destroyed it.