The Far Out There Christmas Parade – page 8
Have we mentioned that Jenna likes boys? There’ve been plenty of hints, but this is a more overt reminder. That girl really, REALLY appreciates a good lookin’ guy.
Moving on, this page is… kind of different. Where as the previous pages have been full of callbacks, this one is all about laying the groundwork for the future! While we’ve either seen or heard about a few of these people already, the vast majority of the characters in panel one are complete strangers to you all. Have fun guessing what all these early bird cameos are going to lead up to!
(Historical Notes: I can’t remember if I bring this up in the original comments later, but this is around the point where the text REALLY doesn’t coexist with the rest of the image very well. I’d tried to help things out by slightly lightening up the background, but that was nowhere near enough to make the black text pop. Unfortunately, it WAS enough to ensure that I couldn’t go back and change the text color to white, because now THAT blends in even WORSE! Thanks Past Me. Oh, and speaking of whom, I bet Past Me would be SHOCKED that even here in 2020, most of the early bird cameos in this page still haven’t come into play yet. If nothing else, we HAVE seen the red-haired lady a bit since this page. That’s Ursula Madrigal, an actress we’ve seen on TV a few times, in what are actually STILL early bird cameos! There is SO MUCH STUFF I haven’t done in this comic yet!)
I don’t remember whether this is the first mention of Shirtless Teen Boy News, but I have to wonder if they’ve ever gotten into conflict with a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” policy somewhere. Or has that policy been phased out in the FOT ‘verse?
it wouldn’t matter: policies that apply to regular people don’t apply to celebrities anyway
I was actually wondering if this was the first mention as well. You’d think I of all people who know.
I’m 92.3% sure this is the first mention.
what surprises me here is that Tabitha’s question seems to imply that she also is an STBN viewer. which seems somewhat untabithalike somehow.
Tabitha might have had some kind of working arrangement with STBN before, probably a top secret project to unlock new previously-unimagined levels of shirtlessness.
I suppose that makes sense, after all she is the galaxy’s foremost recognized expert in Mad Costuming Science.
(If Jenna finds out that Tabitha knows them personally and could introduce her…she might explode.)
…the irony, or course, being that Tabitha would probably find their trademark LACK of costumes rather boring.
They’re only required to be lacking in the shirt part, so not 100% lack of costume – They could wear different hats! Or something like that. Tabitha’s expertise thus being required in finding some way to differentiate them from each other without shirts, given that they’re probably pretty blandly similar in other respects, as most media-chosen stereotypically “pretty” people usually are. Even Jenna can’t tell them apart after all the time she’s spent watching them!
Layla might point out that some of the things Tabitha dressed her in (or tried unsuccessfully to dress her in) were about 95% lacking in the costume actually being there anyway 🙂
I just realized that float is basically a giant terrarium. So now I’m wondering how someone could have “drunkenly blundered their way out of the float.” A sober person could reasonably climb over the side and escape, but it’s harder to believe a drunk person could do that, especially by accident.
its the future, and they’re unbelievably rich, maybe they have jetpacks or antigrav with selfcontained a.i. that does the steering for them. or they’re tiny and just climbed on peoples heads because they could. or everyone else got tired of them and tossed them up there. or some combo of the above, who knows how tiny drunk rich people manage stuff a zillion years from now, it’s a mystery!