Week 38! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 5/3-5/9. Oh boy, Coach Dom... yep, things are going to get more and more embarrassing. So, I'll just come out and say it, Coach Dom is pretty much a straight ripoff of a character with the same name in an ancient Newsground flash series called Xin. Same kinda cap, same kind of attitude, same kind of job... not so much the same kind of methods of dealing with students. Overly harsh and brutal, yes, but not to the level of, well, beating the shit out of them in anime fights (or getting beaten the shit out of). Very early in my creativity career as a teenager I would sometimes just lift jokes from stuff I'd seen recently, and this was an instance where I just pretty much took a character and put it in my thing (and it's even more embarrassing now because Xin sucks in retrospect, it's one of those things that you think is really cool in high school but it's actually awful). Beyond that, though, Dom was meant to just be a pretty stereotypical hardass gym coach. I absolutely despised Gym in high school, Gym was a pretty regular thing featured in high school dramas, so that was Dom's purpose, to extrapolate on those factors. He had far more of a role in the Old Canon than, say, Mr. Logcos, but I'm not sure where things would've gone beyond that first day of Kale's. Kale probably wouldn't get any better at Gym things, maybe they'd always have had an animosity or Dom eventually respecting Kale for some other silly thing. Also, like Mr. Logcos, bit of a redesign, but mostly only to establish that he's actually beefy (and not skinny with some random lines on his chest for "muscle definition") and also that he looks far more like a bear.