[blog] Year 4, Comic 4 - Calling Home
★ Notes on Year 4, Comic 4 - Calling Home ★
☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆
☆ WHOA. News first this time!
☆ A break! In the blog post for 4.1, I mentioned that there would be gaps in updates! And we’ve got one now. It’ll be a week or so before 4.5 and 4.6 get up on checkpleasecomic.com. I’m currently juggling book promotion, traveling, Kickstarter fulfillment, and working ahead on the comic, so I hope you all understand! (I’m trying my best!)
☆ ANIME EXPO. Is this weekend! And the acrylic standees made it to the convention center just in time. If you backed the Kickstarter, come by and pick yours up.
☆ Small Press Expo. I’ll be a guest at SPX this Fall! I’ll also be a guest at Staple! in Austin this Fall…and @_@ a host of other conventions. I’ll definitely post a tour schedule for autumn. Check Please #Hockey comes out September 18, 2018!
☆ ☆ ☆ NOTES ☆ ☆ ☆
✓ Ugh, I’m verklempt. Can we just move on to the parade? Can we get some shenanigans?? I know I like that good story sadness, but I could use a #DibFlip or something. Can Jack and Bitty kiss for the first time again. Yeah I started this pie hockey bro comic mostly for #FLUFF and #LAFFS, and we’ll get back to them in a bit….Well. We’ll get back to regularly scheduled check please but probably definitely might take a few more angsty trips during Bitty’s senior year …uh….but mostly it’s #fluff & #laffs. Maybe. Listen you shouldn’t’ve asked
✓ How did…that go…for Bitty??? I’m going to go with okay? not bad–perhaps good? A firm upside-down smiley face with multiple question marks?? Suzanne wanted Bitty to know first and foremost that she loved him and that Bitty was always welcome home. That’s honest and without pretense. But on the other hand what the hell is “we’ll figure it out” supposed to mean? Also–Coach??? UGH…Some might see Suzanne’s reaction to Bitty as incredibly enviable. “Wow, she said she wants him home???” And some might not see it as enough. “How can she not even say the word ‘gay’?” Others, probably, might see it as a weird clusterfucky mish-mash of passive-aggression, proclamations of unconditional love, ignorance, pivoting and potential acceptance. But either way, there’s more to come. (I am still drawing this work-in-progress comic with my hands.)
✓ What was Suzanne doing in Bitty’s room? Getting Bitty’s bed ready.
✓ Will Bitty ever go home? Will we ever get to see Bitty at home? We’ll see. We haven’t even seen Bitty step foot on campus as a senior yet….
✓ And Coach? :-/ It’s nice to know when you ask your mother “hey what does dad think of me being gay?” his reaction is WELL JACK HAD A GOOD STRONG HOCKEY GAME…Spirals into the Samwell River, arms flailing, blood pressure rising