page 785 – demanding exposition
Layla can switch between protective mother hen and frothing ravenous beast at a moment’s notice. There;s probably a misogynistic joke to be made somewhere in there.
Also, I just realized she’s totally pulling a Tabitha here.
So, I’m gonna try to get the next two week’s worth of Far Out There comics done over the next few days, so that I can get more of a head start on the Christmas stuff. I’m not going to sleep very much this week. On an unrelated note, today’s new Voting Incentive might involve somebody’s deep phobia, so click with caution.
(Historical Notes: If that warning about the Voting Incentive has you curious, it was Trigger dressed as a clown. I can actually be sure about that one, since most of the comment section was a debate about whether clowns are, in fact, all that scary. I, for the record, am firmly in the “it’s just facepaint, what’s the big deal?” camp.)
Yeah, but your comics self-insert character is one that takes everything (excluding a specific catgirl) in his stride, as if he’s seen monstrosities that existence cannot comprehend and sat them down for a friendly tea party. If exposed at the wrong age, with the wrong stimuli, and the wrong instinctive reaction, I can easily see how someone would see the too-massive, unmoving smile of a Clown to be creepy to the point of becoming a phobia.
Hell, The Simpsons basically showed how Bart could have developed that phobia in the Lisa’s Birth episode (Giant Clown Bed where he’s smaller than the “Clown’s” Mouth giving him panic attacks & nightmares).
Honestly, I always feel sorry for clowns, going through all that trouble to try and be funny just for people to call ’em creepy.