Legend of the Hare, page 20 (Patreon)

God, there's not a lot to talk about on this page, is there. I like how one of the jeering questions is "Why don't your costumes have a consistent visual motif", though. Also, Jill flipping off children.

What I don't like is "This is how the song starts". The song "Threshold" from the Scott Pilgrim vs the World movie starts "This is the beginning of the song", and given that I gave the band a Scott Pilgrim-y video game reference name we're starting to creep past "inspired by" and into "straight-up ripoff". You'll also notice that the lyrics here happen to fit the tune of that song too. I'm not really sure why there's suddenly such a strong Scott Pilgrim "influence" that comes and goes like a fart in the night, I guess I was just on a kick when writing it? Either way, this is a major writing foul and past me deserves a bit of flogging for it.

This page does have one of the better Lore Posts, though:

“The Pit of Sad Despair
Satanic 3 and Knuckles 

Singer/Guitarist: Riley Harrison
Bassist: Jill Leverett
Drummer: Starflower Embershire

Tracklist

01. We are a band and our name is Satanic 3
02. And Knuckles
03. The Pit of Sad Despair
04. Death Rides a Tiger Skull
05. Moonvalley Octopus Tangerine
06. Everyone you love will eventually die 🙁
07. Cuntfister Batallion 666
08.  I love you and you and you and all of you
09. An eight year old girl’s mom has cancer
10. My vagina grew a dick and my dick grew a gun and now it’s overthrowing the capitalist patriarchy VII.
11. Sunflowers
[Bonus Track] – The flaming skull loves us all tragically.

The Pit of Sad Despair, the sophomore album from Somerville-based based rock/metal/folk fusion band “Satanic 3 and Knuckles” sucks. There’s no nice way to put it. Less of an album and more of a collection of mishmashed singles, The Pit of Sad Despair amazes in that every every single track is worse than the last one, regardless of what order you listen to them in. The album was apparently recorded on a webcam microphone, and entire instruments will fade in and out of songs at random intervals. Did anyone in the band even listen to this tripe before trying to sell it? If not, they’re smarter than us.

The Pit of Sad Despair isn’t even worth the time to read about, and the remainder of this review will simply be a translated except of The Iliad, in the hope that some value may be given to someone for this turd’s existance.

Zero trilbies out of a possible six point three trilbies.”

– Music Reviewed Quartly [sic] review of The Pit of Sad Despair.

The tracklist indicates that each of the three members of the band took turns writing a song. Much like the outfits, no consistency. The only thing I don't like about this tracklist is that " My vagina grew a dick and my dick grew a gun and now it’s overthrowing the capitalist patriarchy VII. " should really be " My vagina grew a dick and my dick grew a gun and now it’s overthrowing the capitalist patriarchy part VII", like it's the Trapped in the Closet of Satanic 3 and Knuckles, an epic unappreciated in its time. This lore post was also the first official confirmation that the comic took place in Somerville, Massachusetts. I actually briefly lived in Somerville when I tried doing LotH chapter 2, and it's much nicer there since I actually new how goddamn expensive it is to live in and took real reference photos. Book 2 of LotH had a much stronger sense of place in the four pages it lasted, with panels like this

and this

based in real places in Boston. Even though I write a comic in a fantasy world, I should get back in the habit of taking photographs. Look how much nicer the book 2 panels are, in part because I gave Carlos so much more to work with. I guess we'll see those full pages eventually.

I wonder why I stopped doing the jokey lore posts and never did them in Saffron and Sage? Maybe I should try doing that again. If nothing else, it would give me more text to SEO, and even if the actual comic page was a whiff, there'd be a chance of a joke in the lore post getting a laugh. I should really consider doing it from now on.