Week 247! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 4/28-5/4.

Ugh, well, here's page 421. Sorry it's so late, things just keep coming up over and over, but at least it's out in a finished form at all here.

Not an amazing amount of things to say about this page. I picked up somewhere (Shakespeare, maybe?) that a simple way to state a difference between a comedy and a tragedy is that a comedy starts sadly and ends happily while a tragedy is the opposite, it starts happily and ends sadly. This whole scene with Peter is meant to be the "happy start" to a story arc that ultimately ends pretty sadly. A cheesier and more cartoon-y comedic beginning before the ball sort of starts rolling down the hill.

I'm not sure how well the grapefruit juice squirting out of the thing is portrayed here, especially since traditionally a squirting grapefruit does actually spray straight up, rather than arcing down like that, but I think the milk and cereal splashing isn't bad. That cereal box is a reused asset from 2010, it's the same cereal and box he ate in page 202 (where he's got nothing but him kissing Kale in his dream on his mind). It was (and still is) actual old box art of Fruit Loops with some alterations, making it "Fruit Tori" (the plural of torus, which is what a donut/loop shape is actually called).

Also while Judy, Campy's mom, isn't actually 'there', this is her first appearance as well since around the same time as Peter's, which is also the event that Judy's referencing in terms of telling Peter to talk to Campy before.