[blog] Year , Comic 20 - C
★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 20 - C ★
☆ ☆ ☆ NOTES ☆ ☆ ☆
✓ I CALLED IT! I KNEW IT! I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE COMIC ONE! YES! WHY AM I STILL CRYING! Aha! Because my writing is predictable but unpredictably predictable?! There are so many ways to become a college hockey captain. And ya already know how Bitty’s junior year is gonna end! But how will that how happen? Come on, you know you know….right? (Okay, I’ll stop, thank you for believing in Bitty.)
✓ Eric Richard Bittle, the shortest member of the hockey team, the frog who brought a pie to his first kegster, the player who was both the most spirited and also the closest to being kicked off the hockey team, the SMH member who was bold enough to install curtains in the Haus kitchen, the boy who got checked and lived—is the captain of the Samwell men’s hockey team. How? Folks, it’s been a long three years. Real long. And it’s been my distinct pleasure drawing page after page of Bitty facing his fears and falling in love with a bunch of stupid frat boys. But they also fell in love with him! If Bitty had done nothing but feed these guys pies for three years, he’d probably still be in the same place or at the very least alternate captain. (Think about it…yeaaaaah you know he would be.) But Bitty said it himself in his impromptu vlog not-speech. He’s grown and he loves these guys. He’s a leader because he not only is strong in his own perfectly Bitty way, but also because he can’t not care about his team. It’s more than pies. Bitty knows everything about each and every one of his teammates and is invested in their growth and success. It’s who he is! That’s Eric Bittle! He’s was born to lead this hockey team!
✓ OK cool that’s great what did Jack do when he found out the news why was no one recording was there a livestream hidden camera you say they care but WHY WAS NO ONE TAKING PICTURES OF BITTY’S BIG MOMENT FOR JACK LAURENT ZIMMERMANN. O-oh my goodness they got pictures! Bitty face-timed and they called and group chat looked like a hellscape of emojis and capslock for an hour! Also Okay, don’t flip out, but probably around the time Jack started having feelings for Bitty (feelings = “What is this perplexing fondness I feel?” “Why does Bittle make me feel like hockey makes me feel?” “His eyes are so big and brown and freak me out but in a good way???”) he probably started thinking this Bittle guy could lead a hockey team. And by the time they started dating, Jack was pretty sure Bittle was the man for the job. No offense to Ollie and Wicks. So while Jack was not surprised by how overwhelmingly in love SMH is with ERB, he was surprised by Bitty. Jack had hockey and couldn’t see Bitty until a lot later but okay fine I drew it:
“Bits!”
✓ And Mama Bittle?? And Coach??? Very proud and somewhat unsurprised that their son, despite being small and prone to solving problems with baked goods, can lead a team of gigantic rowdy boys. Coach was captain of his old high school football team back in the day. Oh, Dicky’s a chip off the old block, isn’t he?
✓ Jack and Bitty are stronger than ever. A couple comprised entirely of Samwell hockey captains. Yuuuup. Move over Alex Berger! There are new Samwell hockey legends in town!
✓ WAIT WHO DID JACK AND BITTY VOTE FOR IF THEY WERE BOTH UNANIMOUSLY VOTED AS CAPTAIN? Like, even if unanimous means “everyone who isn’t jack voted for jack”–who did Jack vote for back then? Okay and Bitty? Hm. I guess not everyone has to vote if they feel so conflicted. Is it mandatory? Hmmmmm.
✓ How does Bitty feel about checking nowadays? He’s still scared of checks and getting checked but he’s getting better at fighting through them. There ya go, #15.
☆Up Next: Seniors packing up and also the Stanley Cup playoffs.
☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆
☆ Flame Con is August 18th and 19th in Brooklyn, New York and (since Kickstarter fulfillment is wrapping up) I will have so much merch! I’m talking key chains and sticker sheets and posters and pie pins—all those stretch goal item add-ons that Kickstarter backers should be getting in the mail in a few weeks. We’ll try to have the store up and running with more merch in a month or so!
☆ After that I’ll be a guest at Staple! in Austin, TX and I’ll be sharing a table with known pal Madeline Rupert at Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. (AND THEN TABLING AT NYCC!)
- 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)
☆ Ah oh yes I’m working on a softball story with Mad, but you probably won’t hear much about that until 2018? (Unless you follow my Patreon!) Just girls playing softball and makin’ art and trying to avoid crushing student loans.
☆ Okay! I’m already hard at work on the next two updates! Thank you guys again for your overwhelming enthusiasm and your love of Eric Bittle. And as always, thank you for reading. ✓
