Week 229! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 12/23-12/29.

And the third and final script update for both this month and this year, it's page 436.

Again, an opportunity to be referental and meta, this time teetering the seesaw away from me and more towards the other direction. The thing going 'wrong' with the alternative in this part of the date naturally is Connor being terrified during a horror movie. Connor's a very sensitive and dependent person, so getting frightened at a horror movie makes sense in terms of his character, and it fits the sort of cliches that this arc has been purposefully hitting thus far. Because it's a horror movie, and because I was already being self-referential with DATAROM!, I decided to make the horror movie not just be some random spoof or something, but be actually related to something else I work on: Order of the Black Dog.

Again, if you're unfamiliar, OOTBD is the comic Rebecca/Immelmann has been doing since Concession ended, and it's a comic that I've been an editor for since the beginning. References the works of Rebecca and I have been a thing before: if you look at page 209, Campy's mom is holding a box for a movie called 'Concession to Love: Romance in the Movie Theater'. Combining the existance of this movie in the FH universe with the existance of DATAROM! as a movie in the Concession universe, the joke back in the day was that we actually existed as movie-makers in each other's comic's universes, or something like that. Going along that vein, I figured making an issue of Black Dog into a movie would be more interesting at least. I specifically picked Issue 4, also, cause I was trying to think of a scene that would especially scare Connor, and that one has like a whole creepy-eye thing going on in one page that stuck out to me.

I dunno if this is getting too wank-y or anything, but I dunno, it's been quite a long time and it's not exactly unfamiliar territory or anything to the comic. Also you should read Order of the Black Dog if you haven't ever. :B