Page 886 – Very Important Plot
On general principle, I’m never happy about a page being late. It just never sits right with me when I say “I’m gonna do this thing!” and it doesn’t get done. But that said, MAN, if ever there was a day when I would ALMOST be okay with getting stuff done on time, this would be it. I actually sat down and counted, and -all projects put together- I’ve drawn over SIXTY COMIC PAGES this month. That’s NUTS, man! So, yeah, in that respect, even a half-finished page at 4:30 is kind of a remarkable achievement. But enough self-pity, I’ll have the final draft of the page up by tonight. Sorry!
And speaking of me getting things done late, today’s Voting Incentive related to what I spent yesterday finishing up INSTEAD of this page. It all ties together, you see.
Oh, and I guess we should talk about the actual comic itself a little, because we’ve finally done it. It finally happened. After nearly 900 pages, Far Out There has finally dropped all pretenses and openly made hugs into a plot point. Truly this comic has come into its own.
(Historical Notes: Random, non-comic-related factoid, but several of the comments for this page revolved around SmackJeeves’ ability to to add a title to your comment, or even have that title BE the comment… a feature SJ no longer allows, so several of those posts no longer say anything. Such an amazing, problem-free site upgrade…)
IF THERE WAS A COMMENT TITLE HERE, IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS
Tabitha seems to be forgetting about all the many many times she was hugging all over Layla. Or, actually, maybe those were all in vote incentives? Which may or may not be canonical and if canonical may still be in the future of the current timeline. Now I’m not sure at all. We need some sort of Hug Indexing System to keep track of this sort of thing.
The Voting Incentive Temporal Paradox Rule is definitely in effect with at least some of those hugging incidents. There’s actually a lot of art over there that was drawn with future plot developments in mind.