Comic 1239 - 3 O' Clock Blues, Page 2
1st Mar 2023, 6:00 AM
in 3 O' Clock Blues
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In general I have been liking how much the situation with the baby has kind of turned things upside down for Jake. What we saw of him while he was in jail didn't seem to bother him that much, but this is kind of whole new ground for him comparatively and he's a lot more rattled by it than the more fantastical things he typically goes through. Though the complications that come from the mother being a pixie queen from another world probably don't exactly help.
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Marshman101
1st Mar 2023, 4:09 PM
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The awkwardness is both touching and adorable and funny and sad
Wolfintina
2nd Mar 2023, 5:58 PM
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Unplanned parenthood can really throw everything out of wack.
In general I sorta wanna show Jake doing more one-on-one "Dad" stuff with each of the kids. I get the feeling he's trying to actively prepare himself for the baby, and he probably genuinely wanted to do some of this stuff with them but only now feels okay with it due to them all outright telling him he was their dad. So gonna try to see if we can't get more of that going forward.
The reason Jake's moving items into the school, on a narrative level, is just for convenience in storytelling. We might need to bring in Jake's artifacts at some point in the future and it would be easier to just say it's one of the ones at the school instead of having to make the trip to his storage locker. Jake of course is at least smart enough to only bring the less-dangerous items to the school instead of some apocalypse-bringing flute or whatever he probably kept far away. Sort of like how Lenore was given healing powers as a potential out just in case the kids got seriously hurt in a fight (which did wind up happening).
Weird thing is I don't like Blowin' In The Wind that much, but it's Dylan's most well-known song. I kinda picked it because I wanted it to feel like Jenny genuinely just googled Dylan and learned the first song that came up. Like a lot of Dylan songs it can be sorta hard to figure out what it means, but instead of being in a trippy way (Highway 61 Revisited) or a dream-like way (Blood On The Tracks) it sounds more zen. The song is very passive and calm, but while the interpretive nature of Dylan songs is usually captivating, to me Blowin' In The Wind sounds like something trying to be deeper than it really is. Like, I get why the song wound up stereotypically associated with hippies. In really did get sung in a lot of protest rallies, including after MLK's march on Washington, which is a cool fact I didn't know until I did research into the song so I could write this page. It also saw a resurrection in popularity during the war in Iraq, and was adopted as a hymn by a lot of churches. People have said that the fact that the song isn't really "about" anything is a strength, since it can be applied to anything, so to each their own I guess.
Oh, Jake also has a new "work jacket." I liked that he had his red jacket for off-the-clock scenes and his blue one for the center, but the blue jacket was part of his maintenance uniform. I wanted a new one just to establish that he's been promoted. He's probably not going to wear the whistle as often but it's here to illustrate that it's part of his uniform as well, and just a reminder that he's a gym teacher now.