page 1350 – not exasperating at all
Heeeeeeeeey, guess who’s really running behind on stuff again! This week, though, I’m doing the responsible thing and posting rough edit of the page instead of just putting the whole update off until the next day. Of course, if you’re tuning in on Tuesday morning and actually ARE seeing said rough edit, then you can hopefully also see why I felt the need to wait until I had the final draft ready last week. The whole “Hey look, it’s Avi’s family!” joke kinda doesn’t land as well before all that blue skin gets added in, ya know? Sure, there’s still the hair and the theatrics. but the blue is kinda essential.
So, yeah, check back here either later in the day or tomorrow morning to see the version with cleaned up line art and all the bells and whistles added and possible some extra stuff to fill in some of that weird empty space in a few of these panels, I dunno. We’ll see. And as usual, also check back Friday for another TWC voting incentive!
EDIT: Oh boy, am I glad I went ahead and posted that rough draft when I did. I laid down for a bit of a nap mid-editing, and suddenly the whole day was basically done. But it’s done now! Click here to see the original posting of this page and compare/contrast all my fiddling.
The thing is, Avi pretty much just needs some direct attention from his family to deal with some of the worst excesses he currently has. Like taking a 3 Day Photo Shoot purely to send out Individualised Greeting Cards to everyone in his family.
Apart from that, he needs a few years to grow up, and at 18, if he looks after himself, Avi MIGHT be permitted by his family to become a model. Probably not, though, as there’s less of a market for Male Models. Female Models sell to females through promoting Fashion & to males through being attractive females they can buy pictures of for their imaginations.
Male Models do the same thing, though the genders are flipped, but the market for Men’s Fashion is a fifth of the size of Female Fashion (if I’m being optimistic), and, due to Earth & especially Western Culture that has enough carry over that we’ve seen enough associated information to say is imitated through most of the FOT Universe, Female-Marketed perverted images make less direct sales than the male-marketed ones.
I’m just kind of assuming that the ladies in this family make a big deal out of each other as a way of indirectly making a bid deal out of themselves. There are some key factors in which Avi doesn’t remind the Raban women of themselves, and since they generally don’t care about anything other than themselves, that puts him at an automatic disadvantage.