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John actually has backstory. It’s barely been touched on, but I did write it. Hopefully we’ll all live long enough for me to get to it. I’ll need money to live so if you feel like coming with me on the journey please consider supporting me on Patreon (or subscribestar or paypal).
Somebody decided to burn a log in the field out back today and it’s still smoldering. So I’m distracted. I may com e back and write more after I make sure the house isn’t in danger.
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Typo: “You’re family” should be “Your family”
Love your strip.
“You’re family. Must suck if we’re the upgrade…” is also a viable fix. Slughtly different meaning, but I chose to believe Jo is deliberately and warmly ambiguous.
Hey Jackie, just checking in for a typo on “you’re family”. Also, hope the thing with the log goes well for you guys.
Is that a new background I spy behind John? A landmark occasion for smoker’s corner!
It’s not. It’s over ten years old I suspect.
The fact that out of the entire staff, John really only feels comfortable with calling just Thomas and Brooksie family makes me feel sad.
He’s friendly with the others, even Carol now, but honestly he’s only ever really bonded with those two. The others are potentially going to be let in someday, but he’s been to many spooky places with Thomas & Jo. Alex might have become something too, but he fumbled it.
How did he fumble it with Alex? Just curious.
He missed his chance of starting a relationship with her when she was interested in him. He waited too long and she soon started to develop feelings for Reggie who wasted no time in making his interest in her plain. Granted, it could probably take a while to happen or never happen at all, but I honestly hope John can start something with Victoria. Not because I want him to get back at Reggie, but from what few scenes he and Victoria have shared, there’s something there. At least in my shipping squirrel brain.
Part of my shipping squirrel brain shops John and Brooksie, but I don’t really wanna lose the representation gotten from her relationship with Ed’s sister.. also also don’t know how the film is gonna go with Jen in charge..
Heh. I’ve got my chips on John and Rulette or John and Vicky. But if it’s the latter that gives us the chance for Mike and Rulette.
Shipping is a fine and noble thing, says I.
Last I checked, before making out with Reggie, she still was interested in John and said she was happy having two boys fight over her. Also, she still hung out with John and opened up to him. While she and Reggie seem interesting together, I still think her just choosing Reggie without talking to John seems a bit rushed.
I’ve known many women who have said they were still interested in one potential partner not long before they actually hooked up with the alternative they were looking at, and they were clearly no longer interested after said hookup. It’s possible Alex said that from simply not knowing how soon it would be that she’d be up for taking things further with Reggie, or if he’d accept.
Most of the women I’ve known who were willing to ask a guy out or move the relationship forward as much as Alex have complained of a long history of potential partners who were not up for a woman who would take the lead. It wasn’t clear to Alex yet if Reggie was another such, because she hadn’t taken the lead to the extent that she did not long after that.
It’s also possible for women to have backburner interests while they have relationships. If the relationship with Reggie is cut short, John could indeed still have a chance.
Poly happens. Alex doesn’t seem like the sort of person who would do non-consensual poly, and neither Reggie nor John seem interested in poly, but there are two entire years of this story I haven’t read yet, and who knows how many decades more to come. A lot could happen, and I’m sure some of it will surprise me.
It takes REAL deep friendship to smack talk your friend’s mom and still come out in one piece.
Or have parents who have disowned you, like Jo has
“Who sucks as much as THEM?? MY MOM!” – Muscle Man, from the Regular Show.