Valentine’s SCIENCE
*sigh* Well, this is annoying.
First off, happy Valentine’s Day. Here’s Tabitha’s parents being romantic. This is what mad science love looks like.
On a grumpier note, I was SUPPOSED to announce that page 1260 was set to go live tomorrow right after this and yesterday’s celebratory pages. I even got started penciling it… buuuuut I also went and got a booster shot on Friday and WOW it’s wiped me out. Like, “spend pretty much all Saturday in bed” wiped out. On the one hand, this page and yesterday’s were already far enough along for me to go ahead and queue them up ahead of time. But as I type this out right now, page 1260 is nowhere NEAR ready. I dunno, if I get my second wind on Monday, and can make good use of having this extra day to work on it, the new page MIGHT be done in time for Wednesday. And if so, I guess I’ll come back and amend this commentary. But if you’re reading it on Tuesday as is, then I thought better of pushing myself In which case, check back NEXT Tuesday, I guess. Sorry!
Update: Just wanted to flesh the above out a little, though the fact that I’m not REPLACING it really tell you all you need to know. I’m feeling a lot better, but page 1260 is so far behind schedule at this point that, even if I did manage to get it done at some point this week, it’d be so late that doing so would endanger NEXT week’s page coming out on time. So I’m just gonna cut my losses and say that page 1260 is next week’s page. That way, I’m actually REALLY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE instead of horribly behind! …yeah, I know. Sorry again. But hey, at least you got SOME content this week… and hopefully this time I won’t TOTALLY FORGET to do a new Voting Incentive!
EDIT: Okay, I indeed DID get a new Voting Incentive done, and if you’re tired of all the blue on this page… well, it’ll be the change of pace you need!
One of the healthiest, most wholesome relationships THAT WE’VE BEEN ALLOWED TO SEE OR HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED is between a MAD man and a brain in a jar. On the condition that we limit it to those who have procreated, and that the well-being of those who are born from the parents is included.
Without those conditions, Eric & Patti have been retconned into having a healthy individual relationship, though Patti’s relationship with her daughter was a train wreck. Astrid & Disonar seem to be in a surprisingly healthy relationship, but don’t have kids. And Dr Hector & Augusta (Jenna, Kevin’s and Megaweapon’s parents) are also happy together, and only fail to meet this due to Megaweapon going out of his way to torture Jenna and doing nothing about it.
I would suggest that Astrid and Disonar aren’t so much “healthy” as “really compatible.” Like, they treat each other well, but in the process feed into habits that really shouldn’t be encouraged …but on the other hand, digging too deep into that would be beyond the scope of a family-friendly comic like this, so I should probably drop it.
You ARE spot on about The Hectors, though. I should should have included some kind of disclaimer to acknowledge that. (That, or just give them the Valentine’s spotlight nest year)
I was honestly assuming that Astrid kept Disonar from his worst habits (due to her being a police officer & rich), while Augusta’s friendship prevented Astrid from picking up any bad habits that aren’t easily covered up at a moment’s notice.
Honestly, I’m expecting Ichabod to have a healthy relationship with his Girlfriend, even if they both consider it an annoyingly long-distance one. Though I also expect her to be a work-a-holic (like Ichabod), and they both consider taking each other from their work for a period of a day or two to be an effective punishment for whatever MAJOR relationship transgressions occur.
I can indeed confirm that Ichabod’s Mystery Girlfriend is indeed just as if not MORE busy than he is most of the time.