Bitty: [completes TD pass to Jack]
Jack: [slaps his boyfriend's butt]
Jack: Nice play, Bittle.
later
Lardo: Wow.
Ransom: Um. That was weird, right?
Holster: No joke. That was the most precise and least sexual butt slap I have ever seen in my life.
Ransom: ...Incredible. He's perfected it.
Lardo: Purely functional. Congratulatory. Efficient. Masculine. Terrifying.
★ Gale Galligan’s illustration for the Year Two Kickstarter print set! Definitely follow her on:
Gah! I forgot to add this livestream sketch to the blog! If you haven’t seen it already.
Check, Please! updates this month!
Monday - Comic 3.12
Wednesday - Comic 3.13
Friday - Comic 3.14
Sunday - Comic 3.15
Bitty knows that Jack knows that Bitty knows how to dress warmly for the cold. After all, he had survived two entire New England winters yet. But he smiles and laughs when Jack pulls the beanie down over his bangs.
Jack chirps him about properly wearing toques and how you feel a lot warmer when your head is warm, and Bitty chirps him because no one uses the word toque down here, stop trying to make toque happen. They somehow end up talking about all the different ways to pronounce pecan.
- More sketches. Exploring some ideas/characters, though I’m not sure how much of this will even end up in the comic. But, I wanted share.
- I’ve never shown the front of Thirdy and Marty’s uniforms in the comics! They’ve been alternate captains this entire time, though. Marty got the A before Thirdy did, but Marty’s been on the Falcs slightly longer and is slightly older. Marty’s 35 and Thirdy’s 34. (Tater: haha old guys.)
- Every season, Marty says he’s going to start wearing a visor, but you know hockey players and their superstitions. (”It’s, uh, a bit of a point of contention between me and Gabby. I know, I know, safety safety. Ya know my grandpa played in a league where they didn’t even have to wear helmets?”) With Thirdy, however, long story short–he got married. His wife carefully curated several articles worth of convincing players safety research. Then, she presented them matter-of-factly. The tenuous excuses of “superstitions” and “I’ve never been hit before” and “well if ya get a stick to the eyeball were you even paying attention” really couldn’t hold up against the data.
From a recent sketch jam. I hope something can make you smile today.
Justin Oluransi: [shared a link with the chat]
Adam Birkholtz: P. sure the guy doing Jack’s cellys is different from the dude who does the post games.
Shitty Knight: ahhhh yes; that jack reminds me of the mf who leaf piled me a few weeks ago
Larissa Duan: celly jack = haus jack
And just like that, the Check, Please: Year Two Kickstarter is over. A big thank you to everyone who supported the campaign with either a pledge or by sharing a link or even just by reading this comic. Thank you!
Backers will be receiving project updates via Kickstarter, and I’ll be hard at work on both the Year Two book and all its extras and drawing brand new comics. Either way, I’ll be both busy–and excited!
So thank you again!