Week 105! (Patreon)

Early comic! This is from 005 - Fingershake, obviously from the first arc ever that was a condensing and retelling of a lot of the Old Canon material to introduce everything in the New Canon.

So this panel was meant to introduce the new thing I had given Kale for the New Canon: him having OCD. This came out of both a desire for every character in the reboot of the comic to have some sort of notable given "flaw" to focus and build on, as well as myself having been in the middle of getting my degree in psychology at the time. It hasn't been handled all that well or all that often throughout the comic's run, but at the very least it isn't WHOLLY abandoned or out of the picture in terms of the current or future state of things. There is, after all, a panel in a way later comic, 232 - Handshake, that was meant to directly reference this one, in order to show that some modicum of progress had been made in Kale's handling of the disorder by having him upgrade from shaking a single finger to a very reluctant full handshake.

Also man these early comics are hard to look at nowadays. I mean, "you're your worst critic" and all, but it really shows that these early comics were the first things I had ever drawn with a tablet. Allows for a way more obvious showing of improving in 8 years at least.