[blog] Year 2, Comic 16 - Kiss the Ice
★ Notes on Year 2, Comic 16 – Kiss the Ice ★
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✓ Disclaimer: never go up on the roof of a hockey rink and burn things/drink alcohol/eat pie. Don’t be like these hockey players; don’t go on roofs.
✓ Kiss the Ice? I was hoping for kissing but honestly of the hockey boy to hockey boy variety. Kissing center ice is a hockey tradition at a number of schools! Just like kneeling down to kiss the logo at halfcourt after a senior’s last basketball game in March, or swimming down after a senior’s last meet to…kiss the water at…center pool. Uh. So maybe I don’t know how this works out in every sport, but I first learned about this neato hockey tradition from an article covering seniors at Michigan State who do this! It’s super emotional! (So Jack Zimmermann, how dare you tease Shitty for tearing up. Yeah, Harvard might have a recreational hockey league but it won’t be the same, Mr. Providence Falconer.)
✓ Shitty’s parents made him cut his hair for graduation??? That’s not Cool! I mean, is his facial hair even safe? Alas, Shitty cut his flow. I’m pretty sure he’ll never shave his mustache since I’m not sure what’s underneath there. Bitty tweeted about this back in the day—Shitty doesn’t have the best relationship with his dad or the parternal side of his family.
And another throwback tweet just because I like Dex:
✓ Seattle has an NHL team? In the CP! Universe it does. The Seattle Schooners are an NHL expansion team along with the Providence Falconers, Las Vegas Aces, and Houston Aeros (yes, the Aeros).
✓ The New Oven aka Betsy, Jr aka Betsy II aka Bittle’s Oven. I KNEW IT. ALL THE WAY BACK DURING IN FIRST UPDATE JACK HAD BEEN PLANNING TO BUY BITTY A NEW OVEN. That’s why—HE WROTE DOWN BITTY’S BIRTHDAY ON A POST-IT NOTE. I knew it!!!!! I’m not sure if I can convince you otherwise, but Jack didn’t know Bitty’s oven was broken until he walked past the kitchen and overheard. (Why does he look so angry? Jack can’t help his face.)
✓ Jackets. This is just a thing that Jack needs to do because Bittle doesn’t know how to not be cold. Bittle isn’t like him; he’s not from Canada. Bittle shouldn’t be cold—he could get sick and that would stop him from playing hockey. (Or baking.) Not playing hockey is terrible.
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★ Huddle Vol 1. and Year One PDFS are still up on Itch.io.
☆ This update is the first comic in a batch of updates being posted this week! After this bunch completing Bitty’s sophomore year, the next block of updates will go up in early April to start off Bitty’s junior year. Again, creating multiple episodes at once has worked really well for my process and it’s exciting to get chunks of the story all out at once. It’ll be Bitty’s PENULTIMATE YEAR AT SAMWELL and the beginning of Jack’s PRO HOCKEY CAREER. So I’m ALL CAPS excited.
☆ @omgcheckplease still has MAJOR spoilers for Eric Bittle’s junior year. For year 3, i’ll be posting tweets on this blog (#tweets) until the twitter opens up later in Bitty’s junior year. You can still read all of the comic tweets RIGHT HERE!
☆ Convention Schedule. In addition to the conventions below, some that are still up in the air are HeroesCon in Charlotte, Otakon, and the Small Press Expo.
- SwarmCon (April 30th - May 1st)
- TCAF (May 14th - May 15th)
- Anime Expo (July 1st - July 4th)
I’m working on having new merch for these new conventions! Specifically, I’m trying to have a new, short Check, Please! comic ready for summer conventions. (I’ll keep you posted!)
☆ Up Next: Jack and Shitty donning those fateful mortarboards, goodbyes and really saying goodbye. Thank you for reading. See ya tomorrow!