Week 106! (Patreon)

This panel comes from 047 - Butterfly Butt, uploaded during the fourth arc but before that whole dance thing had happened yet.

This scene at the school swimming pool was meant to do a few things. Firstly, it firmly established Bruce's and Campy's body types underneath their shirts; namely, Bruce is fat and Campy is skinny. This was a conscious and deliberate effort to have different body types for characters in the New Canon, since the Old Canon and older style was rife with every character having the exact same thin body type (and the same basic muzzle-shape/length, too). Also gave people their first glimpse of Campy without his hat in the New Canon, eyes and shaggy hair and all.

Another part was to establish that Campy canonically had a butterfly 'tattoo' above his left butt cheek. This was due to a bit of intertwining  and nod with Concession and with Joel and Campy being a 'thing' in one way or another (butterflies being Joel's insect of choice in Concession). It hasn't really come up since but it's still there after all this time and it will be mildly relevant both in and out of canon yet. This was indirectly also an interesting way to show how I figured a furry could get a 'tattoo', mainly in that if you ink skin underneath shaved fur, the fur will regrow the color of the ink. I'm pretty sure now that this wouldn't work since fur color is really a genetic trait and changing the skin color probably wouldn't change the fur color outside of a polar bear, but whatever, they're genetic monstrosities to begin with. It was at least interesting enough that I recall a person on FA years ago including it in a list of ways theorized that a furry having a tattoo could make sense.

Yet another part was to have a scene set in a high school pool, as a note of my own personal experience. My high school had a public recreational center directly attached to it that we used for things like indoor track, weight lifting, and of course, the pool. The simple layout of the bleachers and benches and doors and such used in this particular page were lifted from the general layout of those things from the real life pool we had. Also briefly had Bruce mention trying to get out of a swimming test, which is something I wish I could've done when I had to do one (also wish I had Bruce's confidence with being shirtless at the time).