page 669 – bosoms
So, I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but the fanservice levels around here have gotten a little higher than usual. That wasn’t really on purpose, and once I noticed the trend I made a point of dialing things back to normal levels. So, of course, the first thing I did was write a page where two buxom female characters have a lengthy conversation that revolves around their ample chests. PERFECT!
Seriously, though, I TRIED pretty dang hard to come up with a different string of insults that these two could hurl at each other, preferably one that didn’t involve snickering over lady parts. But despite it all, I just couldn’t get that first exchange out of my head. There’s something wonderfully absurd about an insult failing because the target literally doesn’t see what’s insulting about it, never mind that person managing to turn it into a dig against YOU. So, yeah, that’s how we ended up with a page long collection of different ways to refer to mammaries. (I dunno, maybe Trigger will lose his shirt again to at least balance things out a bit)
Anyway, I’m happy to report that I DO have one more little Deleted Scene that’s short enough for me to do before putting Voting Incentives on hold this month. So, New Voting Incentive!!!
(Historical Notes: Six years later, I can’t remember just how far I’d gotten into figuring out what Astrid would turn out to be, but I knew enough to know she was more than just some ditzy blonde, which is where this little catfight came from. I wanted Layla to not be sure if Astrid was smart enough to talk circles around her, or DUMB enough to talk circles around her, which obviously paved the way to a much grander payoff later. Also, because someone else will mention it if I don’t, we have to acknowledge the irony of this probably being the LEAST big Astrid’s boobs would ever be drawn.)
re: hovertext: You joke, but even if this page were typical of FOT, it would still be in the top 25% classiest webcomics. I mean, the bar is set pretty low.
re: Historical Note: Maybe they’re size-adjustable, like Disonar’s infinitely-changing hair? This is THE FUTURE after all! Although…you’d think she’d have them dialed up for the party, right? (Just trying to keep it classy here in the comments section 😉
That actually brushes up against something I debated mentioning in the Historical Notes, but left out they wouldn’t be too long. The obvious implication of this page is that Astrid only has the, um, “dimensions” she does because she got extensive, expensive cosmetic surgery. Over time, however, I’ve come to think it’d actually be a lot funnier if she just looked this way naturally. Like, we somehow could see Astrid without any augmentation, the only obvious differences would be different hair color and some freckles. That’s not to say she HASN’T spent a fortune on surgeries, but they might all be for ridiculously minor things that only she would ever even notice. “My left earlobe is slightly larger than the left! FIX IT!”
I haven’t quite figured out how to work an idea like that into an actual comic, though, so I dunno if it’ll ever turn out to be canon.
Wow, Layla’s mind would be officially completely shorted out if only she knew that Astrid was actually claiming her real ones to falsely be fake just so as to imply an ability to afford modifications of a quality that would actually appear to be real, while actually mocking Layla for not being able to afford fake ones because Layla’s real ones had the same appearance of real ones that Astrid herself was pretending to have been proud of having purchased. My brain hurts just from typing that, and I’m still not quite sure what I just said.
I can see where that would be hard to work into a comic.
Even better, what if Astrid really HAS had so much work done to them that, at this point, they’re basically entirely fake… but everything that work was “correcting” was so imperceptible that nobody else would ever notice a difference from when they were 100% real?