Honey Hart Vs. Aspiring Applicant

Turpentine then immediately added “keytar” to the list of instruments forbidden from her band.

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Well, well this should be interesting cause that girl is in no way “The Roommate” crazy with those eyes and joker like smile.

Also Clementine is in no way noticeably jealous

I almost had Turpentine dropping a second glass in this one — like, she rapidly acquired another drink following the one she broke on the previous page, only to immediately lose it.

I could say this about every last one of your strips, but this time I can’t resist.

OH GOD your comic is so absolutely adorable!

I AGREE HEARTILY

WE MUST SACRIFICE THE NEIGHBORHOOD PETS IN ITS HONOUR!!!

Thank you! ♡
(it would rather you hug the neighborhood pets, though!)

Oh noooo, SWF (or I guess she’s all blue, technically)

Fact: her blue hair is the same percentage of the ink swatch as Honey’s pink is. They are parallel!

Maybe Turpentine will be able to save Honey from the evil keytarist and extract the traditional award?

Also, congratulations on the regular updates, Katherine! You’re giving us another reason to look forward to Monday mornings.

Thanks! Having new comic comments to look forward to when I wake up has definitely improved Monday mornings for me.

That face. Wow. Even her name pattern is slightly unsettling. Noun-modifier.. Eee! Awesome dresser though. Where was she hiding that keytar, anyway? Glad that Coco’s not exactly digging her. CM seems like a good judge of people, I don’t know exactly why I’ve had that impression though.

Coco is a pretty understated character (versus a world where so many of the others have huge personalities), but I think one of her traits is that she comes off reasonable even when surrounded by madness.

I thought her name was Soda Sweetner, and that she was cut off before she finished talking. Saccharine Sweet would be an awesome name for a crazy stalker.

From Wikipedia: The word saccharin (as above) has no final “e”. The word saccharine, with a final “e”, is much older and is an adjective meaning “sugary” – its connection with sugar means the term is used metaphorically, often in a derogative sense, to describe something “unpleasantly over-polite” or “overly sweet”.

Jealous Turpentine, ha ha!

And I think Turpentine has used “saccharine” to describe Honey a couple of times! I think. If not, I’ll be surprised.

She’s the kind of stalker that slices you up while your asleep and dresses in your bloody clothes.

Maybe that’s where she originally got the HUG A KOALA shirt.

I think Upset Turpentine is my favorite part of this one! I’m pretty happy with the look I settled on for Soda, too — I sketched a bunch of different ideas, but the constant was always these unbalanced eyes.
Also: this one’s kind of a callback way back to the second one ever (back before I really got the style of these down), in which the Candy Hearts were “looking for keyboard and/or keytar”.

o.0

It’s like a cross between a creepy band fan thing and an implied lesbian crush. And that Slasher Smile. D:

This won’t go badly at all. >>

Also, Turpentine. XD

I’d been thinking all along that if there are big fans of Honey Hart in-universe, they’d be likely to REALLY like her, like perhaps obsessively, and buy into her whole philosophy.

I have no doubt some aspects of her philosophy almost REQUIRE that kind of intensity to believe properly. :/

Her hairstyle is a lot like Honey’s, but I like the curly bits. It gives her a slightly disheveled look. Part of me is kinda hoping we find out we’re wrong about her and she actually has a lazy eye (or something XD ) and is just a bit socially inept.

Everyone else seems fixated on the crazy eyes, but for me nothing is more terrifying than her playing Keytar.

Keytar is a hilarious instrument to me, perhaps rivalled only by those guitars that are, like…double guitars.

whoa… she look like a freaking psycho
and trupentine is soooooooo obviously jealous, i mean that’s so cute :3
and be carful peeps…. mascara mask is watching you O.o XD

Mascara’s always watching. Her blank eyes have eerie powers.

You see, Turpentine? You wait too long to declare your feelings, and a hyperactive fangirl sweeps into the picture with a keytar.

An inevitability!

She will seduce Honey away with the sultry tones of her Keytar… XD

Turpentine should retaliate by finding herself a white haired thermin player

Her name could be Strychnine. Or Formaldehyde.

I actually think my favorite detail of this page is Honey unconsciously aping Soda’s uneven eyes. I find myself doing that kind of thing a lot myself, so I can relate.

Does anyone else get a Letter to Cleo vibe from the Candy Hearts?

My train of thought about Letters to Cleo just went “Wait, wait, I know this name, but can’t quite place what this band looked and sounded like. YouTube to the rescue! …YES. Yes. I would *totally* cast this girl as live action Honey Hart.”

Goddamn, there’s just about nothing in the world that makes me happier than looking at a music video from 1993-4.

You know looking at this again i realize Nic looking at Turps, he some how says alot

I think it’s always been ambiguous whether anybody else notices the massive attraction between Honey and Turpentine — but the last few comics in particular make it seem very possible that Nick knows how Turps feels.