[blog] Year 3, Comic 24 - Cup III - 7 Games
★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 24 - Cup III - 7 Games ★
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✓ The shot went in? Yeah! I mean, it was going to become pretty apparent after reading 3.25–
✓ THE SHOT WENT IN? Y-yes.
✓ THE PROVIDENCE FALCONERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS?! Yes!
✓ WOOOOOOOO! It’s pretty cool!
✓ *points* JACK Zimmermann proved THEM ALL WRONG. ALL those nay-sayers who QUESTIONED his PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ENDURANCE—*grabs shirt* WHO CALLED HIM WORTHLESS!!!! Who called him BAD BOB LITE™ and DARED—*jabs sternum ow* daARED to think Jack would be MEDIOCRE. Well GUESS WHAT. F@%# YOU for questioning him for eveeen a second!! He’s standin’ at center ice with 34.5 pounds of NICKEL BABY. WOO. WOOO. You are—so worked up! *unclenches your hand which is rumpling my signed Zimmermann Falconers jersey*
✓ #Sometimes They Play Hockey. Sometimes they do play hockey. Sometimes they play 12 pages of hockey. And sometimes I…draw the logo of the Providence Falconers backwards because I have drawn 12 pages of hockey, and shape and form have lost all meaning. Not a single pie in this here update–no way, no sir-ee Bob! Because #Sometimes They Play HOCKEY. IT’S A HOCKEY COMIC. *cries* it’s a hockey comic…
✓ Uh, so this update broke you. ᴵ ᵈʳᵉʷ ᵗʰᶦʳᵗʸ⁻ᶠᶦᵛᵉ ʰᵉˡᵐᵉᵗˢ.
✓🚨🚨 TATER WATCH 2017 🚨🚨 Right, how is our favorite tuber doing? Our very special spud? This poor loveable latke? Well, from that replay it looks like his entire back-of-leg situation got flipped-turned-upside-down. But I’d like to take a minute to say Alexei is…gonna be just fine. Yes. Not sure when he’ll be back, but he’ll probably be back. Not a career ending injury, definitely not. “Fine.” Yes. Even though everyone saw the replay and can probably guess what’s wrong, the Falcs med team is calling this a “lower body injury” and “are keeping an eye on it.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m reminded of this quote:
“NHL teams are so secretive about injuries in the spring that if a player were about to undergo an autopsy, they would merely say he was out indefinitely.”
- Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated June 2000
✓ AND JACK! ZIMMERMANN!! WAS THERE TO DEFEND HIS HONOR! (#POTATOMANNISREAL) Now we never actually see Jack throw a punch, but he did lose his bucket. Even though his teammates and a ref held him back, Jack was ready to fight for his brother-in-arms.
✓ Speaking of fights, who was the dude on page 1? The dude rock ‘em sock 'em roboting that Schooner in the face? That’s Guy! You know, Guy. He’s the muscle on the Falcs. During that tough 1-6 loss to the Schooners during Game 1, Guy knew he had to keep up morale and start a little tussle. He’s a good man, Guy. (Who needs to give Zimmermann some pointers on fights.)
✓ You know, I kind of feel bad for the Schooners. Fry Guy supports the Schooners. Samwell was never real, my name is Jean-Paul Sartre, and Check, Please is Fry Guy’s purgatory.
✓ YOU GOTTA DRAW JACK LIFTING THE CUP!! For another time!
✓ So…that’s it. Jack has fulfilled his character arc. He has achieved his dreams! Oh, for real? Hmm.
✓ Finally, I wanted to share this little tidbit that I wrote on the behind-the-scenes blog. I was already pushing the usual 10-page limit with this update, and had so many other panels that I had wanted to include.
A page that would’ve been cute: Bitty waking up and realizing that Jack hadn’t slept. It’s the morning of game 7 of the Cup. Bitty’s heart aches for this poor rumpled nervous boy. Bitty would turn over and make a “=_=??” face just as Jack would close his laptop. Jack would smile at him, they’d cuddle, and then you’d pull back to get a nice little breather panel of them curled up together, under the covers. Win or lose, they have these moments…AND THEN BAM BACK AT THE HOCKEY.
Up Next: You’ve probably already read comic 3.25 by this point! I wasn’t planning on writing a blog for that comic, so expect a blog for 3.25/3.26 combined sometime….later in 2017? 2018? Who knows it’s the holidays. In the meantime, look forward to 3.26 where we see the aftermath of the Stanley Cup Finals.