A message from cumulativechaos
So, I was re-reading this comic (again) and I when you introduced Lardo Shitty says something about getting "the fucking chop", so I was just wondering what Lardo's hair looked like before she cut it?
“…Wow.”
“Please don’t quit.”
A message from rhymeswithazalea
I've been playing hockey for years and Check Please literally nails the entire game and its culture. How do you write it all so accurately if you've never played? I also play goalie and would love to see a main character between the pipes!
Not only have I never played, I skate like a newborn giraffe and have literally held a hockey stick in my hand once!
And I’m from Texas.
I’ll probably do a FAQ/write-up on the creation of Check,Please!, but long story short, I did 3-months of hockey research my senior year of college in order to write my first screenplay Hardy, a story about a really butch hockey player named Chris Einhardt who falls for his best friend and former teammate. It has intellectual gems like:
MALKOV
…Yeah. Not really. But I mean, everyone has like fucking random thoughts. Okay, say you have like a million thoughts in a year, so maybe like 400 thousand are about girls and stuff, and maybe 400 thousand are about hockey, and maybe 1 of them has to be randomly about a guy. Completely randomly. But that thought may not even be a full thought anyway. And you don’t act on that, because, hey. That’s pretty fucking gay. But there’s a line. Now, gay guys—your friend? Shit. Like 500, 600 thousand thoughts a year about cocks and stuff.
HARDY
Six hundred thousand.
MALKOV
Ehhh, give or take a cock.
HARDY
Okay.
For the writing of that screenplay I interviewed hockey players at Yale (one of whom plays in the AHL!) and roommates of hockey players, talked to the hockey beat reporter for the newspaper, interviewed girls who dated hockey players, watched every single of documentary about hockey ever, checked out books from the library about hockey, hit up JSTOR for scholarly articles on hockey culture, watched Miracle/Goon/Slapshot and took notes during hockey games.
Believe you me, I was paranoid about stepping into this completely foreign culture and making some horrible faux pas. But the upside of the excessive research is that I had all this leftover hockey know-how when I completed the screenplay…
which I used to create Check, Please!
A message from ohnosocialinteraction
We know how Johnson sees Chowder, but how does Chowder see his predecessor? Is he in awe? A lil weirded out?
A message from imma-oxymoron
Why'd you add the bunny on his bed in the two most recent comics in his room?
Aw naw son Señor Bunny makes a few cameos—like Comic 8 for example.
He also starts appearing after Bitty finishes unpacking in Comic 2…and then goes into hibernation to reemerge in the spring. I don’t know what Bitty’s going to do about SB once he moves into the Haus. It’s in serious danger of Ransom and Holster taking selfies with it???
A message from schnappchat
is bitty actually good at dancing tho
“Oh. Bless your heart,” Bitty chuckled before deleting the question forever and getting turnt like a Jamaican dance hall twerker.
A message from disappointingeveryone
But the question that's really on everyone's minds: will Shitty and Lardo get to touch each others' butts?????????
“What?”
“Someone asked if we’re gonna touch each others’ butts.”
“…Does right now count?”
A message from sageayana
WHY IS HOLSTER SO CUTE WITH GLASSES. HOW DO YOU DO THAT.
The Eric Bittle Pregame Playlist
“Chandelier” - Sia
A message from macko-mori-deactivated20151230
have ransom and holster ever sat jack down and tried to get him updated on pop culture? or do they just consider him a lost cause?
