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bonus rejected strip update for christmas i guess

Here was a strip that woulda run while Amber, Becky, Dina, and Joyce were squatting around Toedad's corpse.  Right after this strip: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/dingdongredux/

I *like* the strip, but decided not to use it for two good reasons.  1) Amber, that's too much yappin' about yourself for a billion years over somebody else's dead dad!!!  Save it for later. And 2) it introduces some new interesting ideas that could fill stories of exploration, but we should be WRAPPIN' STUFF UP NOW HERE.  Less branching off, more putting caps on things, please! 

Anyway, I went with this one instead:

Keeps Amber's thread going while also moving other things along.  

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Ian Cull

I love both :)

Donald Boettger

Good choice. And those other ideas are still open for exploration.

Karel P Kerezman

Yeah, solid call there. The original isn't bad, but the narrative & pacing decision you went with is A++.

Maude Reads Things

I think you made the right choice. Plus, this way, you can still explore those ideas later if you so choose.

Douglas Appelt

Just as well you didn't publish the first one; you would've embarrassed yourself with that typo in the 5th panel - - how the fork did you spell "bongo" wrong?! ;p

Bagge

Hurray, yet another sorce of angst for amber.

Spencer

I think you made the right call to weave these ideas into further stories instead of stopping them right here, but I do like this strip because of how it blatantly spells out Amber's cocktail of rage issues, self esteem and mental illness in a way that helps me grasp it since I've been kind of lost on Amber's deal for a while now. Also I feel validated that Amber specifically cites her inability to change as a result of her constant putting herself down pushing her into worse actions because I've been banging that drum for a long time.

Lisa

This is painful and beautiful and it hurts to read and I love it. I agree that the death scene wasn't the place for it (although I can see why it would make sense since Joyce is reacting to learning that Amber is Amazi-Girl), but I'm really grateful for this insight into how Amber's brain works. I keep asking myself how I'd respond to her if I knew her in real life.