Interlude: Turpentine vs. Alcohol & The Media

So, what have you been up to, Sourballs? OH.

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NEW PACIFIC CITY! Has this info been given before? (Also, is that Foxy pulling her away? WHO IS THAT?)

That’s definitely Foxy – does she not look like herself?
And yeah, New Pacific City is NEW INFO here, after a lot of consideration! I’d been wanting to name the city that this takes place in for ages. The criteria was that it’s fictional, fairly large, North American, west coast, and has a name that’s just generic enough to *sound* like a city in a comic, if that makes sense. I’ve been thinking of it sort of like Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco had a baby, and that baby took the “New _____ City” naming convention of New York.

The internet told me that this is also a place name that exists in a minor way in the universe of Judge Dredd, but like hell was that a factor. There’s also an unrelated Pacific City, Oregon.

HOLY SHHHHHHHHHnikes, i think i never expected NEW PACIFIC CITY to HAVE A NAME!!!!!

I thought about keeping it nameless for a while…but it started to become apparent that that’d become more and more of a hassle writing-wise, and it’s be like working around a secret for absolutely no good reason.

Turpentine, there are products that will let you pee standing up. It’s probably best if I don’t go into any detail, though.

At one point this one included her saying something about how she’s been trying to practice standing-up-peeing without any devices, and actually getting PRETTY GOOD AT IT, but nobody ever appreciates this or gives her any credit.

Turpentine kinda reminds me of Rebecca Cohen’s Gyno-star right now. “I was trying to pee, and suddenly I had to fight facism or something.” Props to her for peeing standing up.
I think Foxy just looks weird in the (first?) sighting of her w/o the eye stripe. Is she super excited about being in a Rock Music Death Cult?

I’m in a list mood.
1) I like Gyno-star!
2) Fox has shown up without her eye stripe a few times before, but yeah, she usually has it. Most of these characters have an Iconic Wardrobe Piece that they wear a lot of the time, but not 100% of the time (ie: Turpentine’s tiara, Honey’s star dress, Arsenic’s feather boa)
3) She is hell of excited about Rock Music Death Cult.

two things:

a) FOREST ELK
b) the typography of turpentine saying “PEE” all in red text is extra great

a) Can’t you just imagine what Forest Elk would sound like?
b) I debated quite seriously about which emphasis was funnier: “PEE”, “PEE IN THE ALLEY”, or “PEE in the ALLEY”. The words lost all meaning.

In only marginally related news, Pacific City, OR is the home of Cape Kiwanda which includes a sand dune several hundred feet high and very steep that you can struggle up for hours and then run down in seconds barely staying alive and it is all worth it. Just letting you know. And there is plenty of locally brewed beer near by. I hope to see all the Sourballs there someday.

That sounds fantastic — maybe I’ll visit it on a road trip one day.
Also, there’s no part of drinking beer and running around on crazy sand dunes that the Sourballs wouldn’t be into.

I wonder if New Pacific City is anywhere near Milborough (to reference another Canadian comic where the city went unnamed at first).

Heh, probably not so much, since that was Ontario! Not very Pacific at all.

Things that are ambiguous: whether the Band vs. Band city/characters are Canadian or American. I mean, I’M Canadian — but does that mean that’s where this setting defaults unless stated otherwise? I may never confirm it either way.

I easily imagine Turpentine fantasizing about being the judge in a “Most Punchable” contest between The Cartographers and Social Justice Collective…

-G.

What, no Forest Elk?
…incidentally, I was kinda thinking that Social Justice Collective is a SUPERGROUP of local do-gooder musicians assembled specifically for the occasion.

God, I just realised that Arsenic is wearing Ian’s shirt.

Yes! I wasn’t sure whether anyone would notice something that subtle — it’s almost too small to read when Ian is originally wearing it (which is probably the same night he either gave or lent it to Arsenic.)

I noticed the shirt too, but figured lots of clothing gets borrowed or recycled. And then I wasn’t quite sure if it was Arsenic’s shirt, and Ian had just thrown it on.

Re: clothing exchange: the page where Ian was wearing this shirt in Fort Debauchery was also going to have probably the #1 thing I’m still sad about cutting out of a script to make the pacing quicker: when Honey was in the Fort in her underwear and needed to borrow something to wear to go confront Soda, there was going to be a reveal of like a RIDICULOUSLY VAST PILE of random clothing, and either Foxy or Arsenic saying something like “Well, TAKE YOUR PICK, CINDERELLA.”

isn’t a middle finger a kind of swear? a hand swear?