Comic 988 - Wasted on the Blue, Page 9
7th Aug 2020, 11:00 PM
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For as much as Grant's parents come off bad, I kind of like to emphasize that his Mom does seem to genuinely care about him. I've come to think that she's really just a spiteful and antagonistic person in general, and whatever niceness she has inside her doesn't extend much further than her son. Despite making these calls herself, she seems to have total confidence that her son can fix the problem and is counting on him to do so.
I dunno, in general I think Gail has more depth than she usually shows off, but a lot of her relationship with Grant is still defined by being distant, so it's still not something she gets a lot of chances to delve into.
Meanwhile, yeah, turns out Valerie hasn't checked up on either Nicky or her parents which.... does that make her look too mean? I think it's somewhat understandable given they're estranged anyway and she's clearly had a lot to deal with already, but I think Jenny's still pretty up-front for calling her on it.
This is a pretty big fun fanservice chapter, so yeah. Vespi and Lenore have both been clearly marked for cameos. Two popular characters, one of which hasn't been seen in a while, so it'll be neat to see more. ^^
Again, phone-tag pages are eating up a lot of time, but I am enjoying getting a chance to check in on how everyone's family is doing. At least there's only one page left of doing this.
Speaking of parents, yeah, it makes sense that Val's parents really didn't even cross her mind. Does maybe register a little oddly she didn't think of Nicky though given she's usually been pretty protective of him, though maybe at this point she just trusts him enough on a subconscious level that she figured he could handle it.
It's sort of funny, the previous Wright as Rayne page we added a white border around the phonecall heads but that isn't showing up until the next Blues one. Guess just comes down to when the pages were colored since it was something I opted to do of my own accord in post instead of something planned going in.
Jenny's really running up the hugs in this chapter, huh? She's done it in every page she's in so far.
Grant's Dad at least seems to be somewhat enjoying this. I'm pretty sure at this point, Grant likely gets his nerd parts from his dad. Though I really hope one day, he can break the ice of his mother.