Week 265! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 9/1-9/7.

Yeesh, this took forever and a half for some reason, but it's done finally, page 424.

So we have here four different scenes and seven different background characters. First panel's two characters are both returning from comics long ago, the fox Keith was at the Autumn Ball being annoyed by Gus and the raccoon Leanne was walking out of the school building wearing purple mittens. The subway car has gotten a bit of a graphical update much like the school did in the previous arc, with borders around the windows, steel plating/rivets, and spots for ads to be in (currently occupied by that "This Seat is reserved for someone in a Really Good Mood" one), to be more like actual subway cars. The second panel is just the outside of the school as you saw it in the previous arc, and the characters here are one returning character, Jamie the panda (also seen at the Autumn Ball), and two new ones, a cat named Catherine (Cat-hy :B ) and a skunk named Arthur meant to be shorter and wider. The third panel is a classroom, looking the same as the one Bruce and Kale were in last arc but a different class obviously, and the last two background characters are the returning Rosco the anteater (all the way back to when Lupin smashed Kale's juice box on his head) and the new Layla the otter, who I really hope I haven't already used this design for for someone else, I'm not entirely sure, cause otter with green highlight bangs is something I've done before but I dunno if I did for FH yet.

There's no background characters in the second half of the page, but what we do have here is Kale (along with Campy obviously), and now that the strip is in color, you might notice something if you didn't read the script update for this page a long while back: he's wearing a green shirt. This is significant because, if you'll remember in the previous arc, Kale also happened to be wearing a green shirt there. This is the first and only real clue (besides the fact it'll be cloudy all day and break up during dusk) that this entire story arc with Campy is taking place on the same day that the previous arc did, happening at the same time as Bruce doing his whole thing. It's not significant in-story that it is, it's more just that, with the way the Kale stuff is happening, time taken in-universe needs to be condensed and efficient like that. Plus I think concurrent yet separate plot lines is a neat concept in general.

I also added a couple of tiny things to this page since the lineart version I put up last month, notably the floor and ceiling visible inside the school building. The second panel looked both really plain and off beforehand, like that space inside of the school building was way too empty and weird. Turns out from that perspective you should've seen the floor and other walls/ceiling in there! So adding that helped I think. Also just some speed/motion lines for the book falling off-screen in panel 6, to lead the eye down there and make it certain that's what was making the FWUMP noise.