page 858 – remember that one time…
Well THIS was annoying. Since there’s only so many ways a guy can draw one person in a chair talking to a person on a screen, I wanted to do something different with this page. Sort of an abstract thing of shapes and pastels and general 80s thing behind all the text bubbles… which is NOT what you’re seeing here. No, the original draft was so badly botched that even after HOURS of trying to edit it into shape, I finally had to just give up and start over from scratch. So if this page doesn’t look like one that should have taken THIS long to finish… it’s cos the stuff you’re actually seeing DIDN’T take this long. See, this is why I usually just draw cute characters making funny faces.
But at least I got a new Voting Incentive done in the meantime… which I nearly ALSO had to redraw from scratch, but for different, Mantaining-An-All-Ages-Raiting-Related reasons.
(Historical Notes: Turns out I accidentally repeated the alt text joke from page 757 for this one. I’m surprised that doesn’t happen more often. Also, I’m sure this’ll get brought up again, but I don’t feel like the running gag about Mariska’s disastrous love life has ever really landed the way I want. The joke isn’t supposed to be whatever the kinky stuff she’s into actually IS, just that it’s always somehow worse than everybody else. I just don’t think I’m good enough at wordplay to make a joke like that work on its own intentionally-vague terms. It’s the same problem as with The Mystery Room.)
So Ichabod goes after the dangerous ones, and Mariska goes after con artists who can successfully con her. Either that, or has a preference for children, but given what this comic’s like, I’m fairly sure it’s the con artist one.
Also, people already imply that about Layla, so doing that joke twice wouldn’t be as funny.