[blog] Year 3, Comic 17 - Dib Flip
★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 17 - Dib Flip ★
✓ This confusing and ancient tradition of Dibs brings forth nothing but intense emotions and chaos. It’s an unfair meritocracy. #STOPDIBS2017. What? NO. Sometimes you get wonderful touching moments and then sometimes you get *hand waves* whatever happened in this comic. Normally the transfer of Dibs is more sentimental. Well! Clearly, R&H wanted the attic to remain a place with Good Bro Vibes and figured Ollie & Wicky were the natural successors of the Best Bros title in Samwell men’s hockey. That’s sentimental!
✓ But Ollie & Wicky though? Really? HOW DARE YOU THEY’LL BE SENIORS NEXT YEAR. You have no idea the work they put in off-panel! They’re essential members of this hockey team whose other members are vastly unexplored and unnamed. How dare you.
✓ AND BITTY JUST GOT HIS DIBS @$&!%’ ING HANDED TO HIM?! Lucky! Eric Bittle is also dating an athletic millionaire.
✓ Was Lardo fixin’ to give Nursey her Dibs or? I mean…it was pretty close. You can see how she was conflicted? Senior year of college can be incredibly difficult, and majors like Art are demanding. Theses are torture. Nursey just happens to like reading things and editing things and improving sentence structure and haha he’s not bothered by someone using MLA and Chicago and APA formats in their thesis work cited but it’s an art paper duh use Chicago wait lol that’s a weird way to do footnotes haha uh HOLD UP YOUR SOURCES ARE ALL ON ONE LINE NO INDENTS OR NEW LINES OR–LARDO??? But Dex fixed so many appliances in that condemned frat Haus, even though he supposedly wasn’t doing it for Dibs. Tough choice.
✓ Please explain Dex and Nursey’s reactions and thoughts re: Dibs & the Dib Flip. Dex pretty much assumed he was getting Dibs. He’s done so much for the Haus and with three senior spots opening up in this inexplicably large, Tardis-like frat-folks home, why wouldn’t he get a room??? He looked at the possibilities:
- Likely and GREAT – Dex gets Dibs and Nursey does not get Dibs. Possibly two years of smugness and bragging about how Bitty’s pies taste best when they’re right out the oven. Maybe next year, Nurse!
- Likely and Okay – Nursey gets Dibs and Dex gets Dibs but they live on different floors so whatever
- Likely and Bad – Dex doesn’t get dibs, but also Nursey doesn’t get dibs
- Less Likely and Terrible – Dex doesn’t get Dibs but somehow Nursey gets Dibs??? WAIT WHAT?
- Highly Unlikely and Awakening Unspeakable Terror – Sharing a living space with Derek “stop hitting yourself” Nurse
Oh, why wasn’t Derek Nurse freaked out by any of this? Why was he even downright amused? Because Dex can’t stand him and Nursey figures he’ll just do Nursey things until Dex moves out in the middle of September. For Nursey, him and Dex sharing a room is just as good as him getting the room to himself. JESUS NURSEY.
✓ Bitty seems to have shifted from lawful good to chaotic neutral in this episode. Bitty figures that Derek or William will finally grow up—or one of them will move out. Either way, Chowder’s gets to hang out with his best friends even more, so that’s a win for everybody.
☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆
☆ The Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo aka C2E2 is NEXT WEEKEND! (APRIL 21th and 23rd) I’ll be at Table E-18. It’s going to be a BLAST and I will have copies of Year Two with me at my table! I’m super excited to see all of you wonderful midwestern readers and to draw countless doodles in your books!
☆ I’m a confirmed guest at ID10T a brand new comic convention slash music comedy nerd festival bonanza that’s happening June 24th and 25th in Mountain View, California. (Just a brisk walk from Google’s main campus.) It’s the first year of 1D10T (pronounced I-D-ten-T) and should be a whole lot of fun? I have no idea what to expect besides the fact I’m going to rock out hard. I mean, check out the line up. (TANK AND THE BANGAS? THE MOWGLI’S. Ok go weezer animal collective too but whatever.)
☆ And speaking of conventions, again—here’s what’s left in 2017:
★ Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (CHICAGO!)
★ Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF!!)
★ ID10T (Silicon Valley, still confirming!)
★ Anime Expo (Los Angeles)
★ Flame Con (Brooklyn)
★ New York City Comic Con (NYC)
★ Staple! Independent Media Expo (Austin)
☆ SHIRTS & HUDDLES are still up at the Check, Please store. And the top FAQ: If you’re looking to purchase Year One or Year Two or any non-exclusive merchandise from the Kickstarter, it will not be available until fulfillment is finished. Then we will put items up on the online store and also have merchandise available at conventions.
☆ With the past updates done I’ve got a few conventions coming up—the previously mentioned C2E2 in Chicago April 21-23 and then TCAF in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 13th and 14th, I’m really excited to meet a lot of you that I haven’t had the chance to before! The next update is coming even sooner than the last batch did, and should be hitting in mid-May! Were it not for the conventions I’d be able to get it out even sooner, but I’m really excited to see everyone!
☆ So I’m working on the next comics right now! (Junior year has quite a few left, guys.) I’ll be sharing finished commissions/artist’s bookplate sketches from the Kickstarter here on this blog in the meantime! Thanks so much for reading and see you next time!