[blog] Year 3, Comic 19 - Keagster
Have to open with the big news! Check, Please will be hitting bookstores near you in fall of 2018 thanks to First Second. It’ll be joining comics like Cucumber Quest and The Adventure Zone in the ever expanding library of awesome First Second graphic novels. I’m SO HYPED and THRILLED and very thankful! THANK YOU!!
Follow my Twitter and keep watching this Tumblr for news! And YES. WE WILL CONTINUE DOING KICKSTARTERS. Years Three and Four will be kickstarted and I’ll publish them myself alongside :01′s editions.
☆ Slightly old news but Check, Please has a brand new site hosted by Hiveworks! It makes the comic easier to read and you should definitely check it out. I mean, since NEW MARCH TWEETS WERE JUST POSTED TO THE SITE.
New tweets from Bitty’s Twitter revealed! Go check them out here.
☆ And to finish up the news—Here’s the current list of conventions I’ll be attending for the rest of 2017:
- AUG 19-20 | Flame Con (Brooklyn, NY)
- SEPT 9-10 |Staple! (Austin, TX)
- SEPT 16-17 | SPX (Bethesda, MD)
- OCT 5-8 |NYCC (New York, NY)
☆ ☆ ☆ NOTES ☆ ☆ ☆
✓ Okay now to the good stuff; why we’re really here. What’s up with Bitty and jam? Bitty’s not just an expert pie maker! He’s pretty incredible at making all sorts of foods. This includes canning hundreds upon hundreds of delicious jars of jam according to his Aunt Judy’s jam recipe. There are few better ways to spend one’s Spring Break than becoming a one-man-grand-slam-fam-jam factory. It also helps you ignore the fact that your best friends are graduating and moving out forever. Bitty also did no homework and continues to gleefully tap dance along the lines of academic probation and exclusion from athletic participation. Jack isn’t really sure what to do about all this ‘cause the jam is just that good.
✓ Who is Aunt Judy? Why is Bitty making his aunt’s Jam? I heard this jam dispute is tearing Bitty’s family apart at the seams. Why does Bitty willfully add to the chaos and malice between his aunt and mother? Bitty’s hiding so many things from his mother at this point, a few mason jars ain’t a thing.
✓ Alexei “Tater” Mashkov, Frat Bro Anthropologist. Alexei Mashkov has been to some very cool places and parties, but never before has he set foot in a Northeastern college frat Haus. The ever-present stench of stale beer now faint after two years of pie baking; solo cups discarded where solo cups ought not be; A strange little girl who can process more beer than someone with her BMI should be able to. The Samwell men’s hockey Haus is a truly magical place. Tater loves it all. He totally gets why Zimmboni chose to go here.
✓ That’s it…SMH is out of the ECAC playoffs and the seniors are going to graduate? Keagster is their last kegster?? Ransom and Holster and Lardo will be around!! Graduation doesn’t mean *sniff* that they’ll be totally written out of th-th-th–…
✓ Have you ever heard of Zeno’s paradoxes? You can make infinite comics between now and when they have to graduate. Technically they never have to leave Samwell. No, they do. I guess Jack and Shitty’s graduation was easy because I knew what was gonna happen when Jack put on that mortar board. (Read: he was gonna kiss Bitty’s) Maybe one last graduation kegster for these three bros. They’ve still all gotta kiss the ice.
✓ What exactly does Keagster entail? Other than putting several dozen miniature bottles of liquor into eggs and hiding them all over the backyard of your frat Haus yard. And we should keep it that way.
✓ Tony Tangredi and Connor “Whiskey” ??? – will soon no longer be tadpoles? The taddies were great additions to SMH and will hopefully get even better over the summer! This Connor fellow seems pretty great at hockey and has thankfully come around to eating pie with the hockey team instead of hanging out with those awful lax bros. Also, please picture Tango answering new-frog questions next year.
✓ Why is Tango wearing a suit on that one page? It’s Easter! He and Whiskey went to mass.
✓ AND PROVIDENCE FALCONERS PLAYOFF BERTH. 8^)
✓ RANSOM OLURANSI NEEDS TO MEET AND BEFRIEND ALEXEI MASHKOV OR I’M GONNA PUKE!!! Hey, we still have a year and some change worth of comic for these characters to meet and hang out. Anything can happen! I mean, how the heck did Tater get a hold of Ransom’s hat?…Huh.