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Hey, surprise, it’s over! I felt like this might work best all run together. Maybe not, I dunno. But, yeah, that’s it. Hope you liked it. I think I’m mostly ok with it. Always things that could’ve been done better. That’s the struggle. Carrying the big climax there without words sounds like a cool idea …

63

Hey, I got Wei’s family and Pat’s other brother in there. Ya know, I had this story more or less written when I set out to design everyone’s families, and yet I somehow was thinking, “I’m gonna need all these people, so they definitely need specific costume designs and stuff” and then… I didn’t even …

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Lighting! Lighting is fun. It’s a challenge, but it’s fun. I’m moving this weekend. I’m pretty sure that’s not going to effect production, but if I’m late next week, that’s why.

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You may have noticed that 2nd panel is flipped from the picture on social media. In my head, you see, they’d all stood up from the table and were walking around between panels. But I decided it didn’t really read that way. Looked more like I just messed up. I made this decision about a …

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Su’s on the move. Where’s she going? I mean, I know, but you have to wonder. What if I didn’t know? What if I’d been doing this bit with her the whole time thinking, “Man, I better take this somewhere?”  It would be interesting and terrifying to work that way.

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This one made me do extensive research into the difference between a kissy face and a shush face. They’re not the same!

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Young Jac is throwing up the peace sign, but the hand looks like it’s her Mom. Her Mom kinda looks like Emilia Clarke. This was not intentional. This picture largely inspired by  one of your humble author as a kid wearing Dad’s hat.  

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This seems like a good place to post this, a key to the locations of this chapter so far (Su lives in an apartment complex). It’s actually been immensely helpful to me to have this city to track my action in, i addition to using it for backgrounds.

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Suddenly: Exposition! Please be advised the “b” in “dumby” is not silent.

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Hey, Su left her bedroom! Intense text messaging action is, I’d grant you, maybe not the most visually exciting thing in comics, but that’s how it goes sometimes.