page 1354 – these hugs are PRESCRIPTION
Actually, Tabitha just knows this because she went back and binged previous comics, like all good readers do 😀
And speaking of needing sleep, MAN I’m glad this is the only page of Far Out There I’m set to do this week! Only having a new TWC Voting Incentive on the schedule after this never felt so luxurious! Then again, I really should talk about taking things TOO easy. February IS a nasty time for End Of The Month Deadlines, and I’m gonna find myself scrambling to finish another round of Patreon stuff before I know it. Seriously, I’ve got another Far Out There short story in the works right now, and I’m gonna at least TRY to get it done by the end of the month. I mean, I almost certainly won’t make it, but having a deadline to at least ATTEMPT to meet is about the only way I can motivate myself to finish anything at all…
To what degree does Layla know or not know that she has sleep problems/nightmares/etc? Or to what degree is her denial here sincere or just covering?
That’s an excellent question, actually. The only other person she’d be comfortable around enough to have ever really seen her asleep is Trigger, and he’s the very definition of the kind of soothing presence that would nullify the problem.
Then again, it’s establishes that she DOES notice she’s been crying when she wakes up, and tells herself otherwise, so there’s definitely some denial going on as well.
Now I have to go back through 1,353 strips to check if she was ever asleep when Trigger wasn’t around but others were. I’m pretty sure there were Christmas strips, and possibly incentives, but those don’t count.
Edit: After searching on the term “sleep” in hopes of narrowing it down a bit…I ended up with pages and pages of search hits where Blitz complained in the Author remarks about not getting enough sleep 😀
probably a link between the prevalence of such posts and Blitz making the a character trait for one of the lead characters
From memory, Layla’s only been shown asleep in the comic a few times, and Trigger was likely at least in the same room for the few times it wasn’t brought up as something notable.
We might have had her arguably seen by Ichabod while sleeping alone during the prank arc. I’ll just go check that real quick.
Nope. She was awake in bed, and Trigger KNEW she would be awake.
https://faroutthere.com/comic/page-117-something-mischievous-this-way-comes/
Thus, Layla’s sleep issues have been a part of the comic the entire time.