Turpentine Vs. Change

This one took FOREVER for some reason! Time for a celebratory Time To Call That Page Finished glass of wine.

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So on the inside Turps is a grade school boy.

Also I can never understand how people can drink wine its Nasty, which is fine since all Alcohol is nasty, except Vodka, but then you add that its made by some old guy stomping on it with his foot fungus and i cant even sip it without puking.

Most large breweries use mechanical presses. It’s perfectly clean, I swear. XD (I can’t say for sure about smaller ones, but I doubt they do that anymore either, unless it’s just a novelty place for tourists.)

Plus it’s really hard to say “wine” is nasty, because wine has hundreds of variations, depending on what type of fruit you’re using and the fermentation process. You’ve got everything from sweet muscadine wine to dry blackberry wine. That sort of thing. ^^;

I can’t imagine not liking wine! (Although, I suppose I did have a couple of years where I thought I didn’t like red because I associated it entirely with bad memories of the nasty stuff they used to use as BLOOD OF CHRIST at church.)

I love wine and think vodka is yukky. I always vomit after so little of it.

Same here — vodka is the only thing that really makes me sick. I am, however, a great fan of beer, wine, and gin (and, um, at least a few other things in my life that are not alcohol.)

My main poisons are brandy, gin and cider. (I love blueberries)

All the wine I’ve ever had I didn’t like. I’ve had both red and white in different varieties. I mainly drink beer.

For a second, I thought Foxy was eating a heart in the fourth panel. (Oh, and I love her shirt.)

“We gotta prank em! EAT THEIR STILL-BEATING HEARTS.”
Also, I’ve got a ribcage shirt that I really love and will probably never throw away despite it being old and starting to fall apart and already cut up and altered more than once.

And ten year old boy Turpentine rears his head again. >:]

Hah, Arsenic can’t lie worth a darn.

I really like how each of the characters has a different build. It adds a lot of richness to the cast. On that note, someone needs to make Arsenic a sandwich or something – that boy is skin and bone. >>

I’m actually starting to wish I’d given the girls more variation in body type in the original designs…they’re each different, but not by that much, really. I’m glad you think it works!
Arsenic’s build, though, is almost like this intentionally exaggerated meta-thing…I have a longstanding, well-acknowledged habit of drawing skinny guys, and with him I just went “ok, I’m going to turn this UP TO ELEVEN and just design the skinniest, lankiest dude in the entire universe.”

I unno, there’s some pretty obvious differences between Turpentine and Foxxy.

Foxxy is rocking more of a curvy hourglass look (though her bust might be a bit small for a “true” hourglass) while Turpentine has more of a lnaky look going on.

Turpentine also looks like she has wider shoulders, but that could just be the outfit she’s wearing.

Honey has wider hips like Foxxy, but her chest is smaller. At least it seems that way to me, but I could be seeing things that aren’t there due to outfit choices and the like. ^^;

This is all true, and I’m glad it’s not as samey and subtle as I sometimes think! They’ve all got trends in how they like to dress, too — like, Domme always looks like she’s got these strong shoulders ’cause she has a lot of high-cut sleeveless and halter-style shirts.

The one thing I really didn’t do that I regret is making at least one of the girls noticeably taller or shorter. I think that would have been great. (And, apart from shoes, that’s not something that can logically shift around a little in-universe, like shape and weight.)

Arsenic is blushing!What instrument does Angel play?

Wine is much tastier than beer (can not stand), you just have to find the one for you. I like sweet German wines like Gewürztraminer, Ice Wines, Japanese Plum Wine. The Dr. ZenZen brand has many yummy and affordable wines.

I’ve got several well loved tees that I just can’t let go of, some handpainted by friends. A t-shirt quilt would be neat, except I’m a terrible sewer.

Love the choice of lettering for “weird”!

Damon plays bass (although that’s only been mentioned maybe once, and his band’s never actually been shown as a band).
That was almost in the script for this one, but I cut some stuff out due to straight-up running out of space.

FOXY: I know! We should steal that pretty angel boy from Venus’s band.
DOMME: The heck do we need TWO BASS PLAYERS for?
FOXY: Meh, we can find something else for him to do.
ARSENIC (blushing): …Oh, him? …I, uh, haven’t thought about him in ages.

(and etc)

Also, thanks — I did kinda like the weird lettering on “weird”.

What do you mean, who needs TWO BASS PLAYERS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzsWuqNlLK4

I count FOUR BASSES in this song, including Derek’s DOUBLE NECKED BASS. Also Peter Hook from Joy Division/New Order at one point ran some kind of ALL-BASS rock group as a side project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebass

Conclusion: everyone needs two bass players! At least!

I can’t even IMAGINE a better way to convince me of something than to call up affiliations with both Spinal Tap and Joy Division. Sold!

In-universe, though, Domme’s motivation for saying they don’t need two bassists has little to do with imagining songs with multiple bass parts, and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that she thinks her friend just jokingly suggested replacing her with this guy that she (and Turpentine, too) thought was just a total insufferable jerk.

I like how she caught the half eaten pizza that pelted her and started eating it.

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