This is an unintentionally topical section of the comic. Those of you who weren’t born two seconds ago will know that immigration has been a subject of debate BEFORE five minutes ago. I feel like I should say that as you’re reading along as the comic is coming out if the characters say something you disagree with, rather than throwing a fit and stomping off after telling me what a monster I am, you might let the comic get its entire thought out first. If you want to stomp off after that, be my guest. People have gotten into a bad habit of not hearing an entire premise before making a judgment. It takes weeks for an entire thought to work itself through the process of me making it in to pages. I feel the need to preface this since I kept getting accused of things over the squabbling lesbians, and other older pages, that were addressed in the narrative when it had a chance to get where it was going. Of course at this point if my extremely mild storytelling has you flipping your lid there’s nothing I can do to mitigate the issue anyway. For my part I grew up on the ground floor of the immigration debate in a place in the US that no one ever thinks about and I want to say my piece on things through my art, so I will. If you’re gonna be mad at me for not being on your side fine. I’m always not on anyone’s side but my own anyway.

As far as the page goes, whenever John is saying a direct quotation from Thomas he’s doing an impression of him too. Which is why he takes on Thomas’s facial expressions and stance. I almost went way further with it, but decided to pull back since people seem to have a problem understanding what’s happening when I do some sort of visual gag you can only do in something like a comic.

I’ll be entertaining guests for 3 or 4 days, but I should have the next page up on time on Monday, so I hope to see those of you who don’t abandon the comic then. Have a safe weekend. I know that’s becoming a much more difficult task recently, but I urge you to try. If not for your sake then for mine.

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