Week 243! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 3/31-4/6.

Alright, here we go, a day early, page 420 completed.

While I was working on this page, I actually contemplated cutting this page and the next four that I've written scripts for, all involving this breakfast scene with Campy and his step-dad Peter. Making this page and reading the scripts again, the scene started to feel like unnecessary padding, and also like just a rehash of the previous time Campy ate breakfast and talked to Peter in Arc 15, just before the gang all went into VR Chat (which incidentally would put that page as 'yesterday' in relation to this one in-universe). This Campy arc is already longer than the previous with Bruce, so I felt a temptation to just halt and skip right to Campy going to school.

However, on further contemplation, while this bit of the story isn't really crucial and is kind of padding, it still serves a dual purpose, both injecting some light comedy before we gradually descend into serious sadness as well as setting up and reminding the audience about Campy and Connor's relationship problems, which out-of-universe hasn't really been brought up for a long time. Plus I had already gotten to the middle of doing the lineart and I didn't want to scrap the entirety of this page if I could help it, so here it still exists and the next four pages will exist.

Also I couldn't figure out how to write the sound effect of a liquid being poured from a pitcher. Glug? Pssss? Blurb? Tssss? Using something like 'pour' or 'splash' or something also felt incorrect, so... I just left the pouring action sound-effect-less I guess. Also also, again, he's pouring orange juice on a grapefruit. The grapefruit part is still probably not that clear because the super-pink innards of it are hidden by the orange juice on top.