If you’ve been paying close attention, you might know that this occasional character with the skunk-stripe hair has a name, and she’s “Annie Biotic”…which is okay, but in retrospect I think my other idea, “Annie Christ”, was actually better.

Also, I’m so sorry about the long delay with this one! Part of it was that I totally reworked it — I was originally going to jump right into Honey’s song, but decided it really needed an inbetween page. The other reason was that I was in Toronto for TCAF, which was amaaaazing. Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by my table, and to all the organizers and volunteers who made this unreal comics wonderland happen.

In other CAF news: If you’re in the Vancouver area, I’ll be at VanCAF this coming weekend! It’s free to attend, and double the size this year – how can you go wrong? I’ll have the BVB Volume 1 book, new stickers, pretty limited-edition hot pink risograph comics, and more.

Things to note:

1. Not one but TWO callbacks to previous songs in this one!
2. ACOUSTIC NITE might actually some kind of But No Drums policy – or maybe they just didn’t wanna set drums up for like one song.
3. Turpentine owns that guitar, but I’d say odds are pretty high that the band doesn’t have that many acoustic instruments lying around, and the others are borrowed. Maybe surreptitiously from that music store where Arsenic works.

Alternately: Turpentine Kinda Vs. The Other Two Sourgirls. Gee, Turps – DO you actually have a song you can do minus any screaming?

CUT TO: maybe this random guy in the fourth panel, now stuck home sick with the same cold, frowning and watching sad horse movies.