Venue Vs. Peril

NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY STARS (OR HEARTS). This is the BVB philosophy. Honey Hart has an entire closet full of star clothing.

I was also just thinking about how the numbering on these is pretty messed up — there are actually 66 pages in the archive, but I’ve been wildly inconsistent about which of the nonstandard pages count as part of the numbering. Fortunately, I don’t think it matters much. I mostly just number them because having a page prefaced with, like “#56!” feels like a classic retro-comix sort of thing aesthetically.

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Kids without skeletons are great, when you travel you can just stick them in the glove compartment.

Kids without skeletons… that image is going to stay with me for a while. Thanks a lot, Kathleen.

I’m definitely imagining this like they’re not in hideous, constant-medical-emergency pain…they’re just sort of gross and flappy.

Sleazy real estate developers who hate good music are a staple in stuff like this. I was actually waiting to see when they’d show up.

Perhaps they’d tear it down and build an elevator music factory.

A friend suggested that another genre staple is that at least one of the bands could have a Fabulously Wealthy Benefactor who funds them and acts as the catalyst for things like flying off on crazy tropical trips, and having shenanigans at fancy-ass champagne & evening gown parties. I feel like that one’s a key difference between BVB and some of its reference material…my bands live in a world with a definite low-budget-cheap-booze veneer.

Ha. Kids Without Skeletons sounds like another band name. XD

I find it amusing panda girl is wearing a Venus and the Angels tee. 😛 Have you ever considered making band shirts? That would be really cool.

She’s a former member of that band, from back when they used to be Venus and the Snakes. Damon Celestial replaced her as the bass player. She must still be on good terms with them.

And yeah, in-universe band shirts are the only kind of BVB shirt-making that makes sense to me!

Hah, yeah I remember. It’s just funny she’s wearing it during a concert. Her being on good terms with them makes sense though. You know, you being the artist/wrter and all. ;p

I’m sure it will be awesome once it becomes viable. 😀

Oh hey, mega bonus points for remembering that, then!

(1) the street smokers ain’t Candy Hearts fans!
(2) what is everyone drinking? Does Honey Hart drink at all? It looks like she has some kind of crazy ice cream float, but in a bar
(3) Daddy’s Little Princess!

(1) However, at least one of them seems to be a Sourballs fan.
(2) Honey has a lemon-flavored Italian soda — she’s driving! Arsenic has a beer, or at least something that has a similar bottle. Turpentine has a gin & tonic.
(3) I imagine that his actual dad is probably similar to his mom, and would probably throw a real “I HAVE NO SON” shit fit if he saw this.

Poor Arsenic. :[

Oh, I think he’s ok! It’s probably been a long time since he let anything like that really bother him.

…He credits surviving growing up in an oppressive religious household to having his best friend, who taught him how to eyeliner and introduced him to the devil’s rock music.

this whole comic makes me think of sweet n sour cotton candy fluff. The inuendo and “wholesome smuttiness” is fun, and really cute that it is so wholesome.

How old are the characters? Domme is studying femminism and gender, which suggests college, but Arsenic’s mom made me think he lives at home. Community college? Honey and Turpentine both have min wage jobs, but we never see them in school or class.

Thanks — glad you like it!

Good question…I’ve actually thought about this a bit, and decided that the average age of these characters is around 23. The oldest is Domme, who’s 26, and the youngest is probably Damon, who’s 21. Some of the extras hanging around might be a little younger or a little older.

Arsenic definitely doesn’t live at home…his mom just lives in the same city, hence awkwardly running into her from time to time. He and Turpentine live together. That’s their place with the blue couch and calico cat and Honey’s drawings on the fridge. I’m not sure I’ve ever had any 100% clear dialogue like “oh, good morning, my roommate”…just a bunch of situational implication.

Honey and Turpentine aren’t students…they’re both just working miscellaneous jobs while pursuing Band Dreams. Domme is a grad student doing a master’s degree at a university, and the rest of ’em have jobs and/or school that we haven’t seen yet.

Or, the ultra-short version that I once answered this question with: “Absolutely nobody’s under 18 or in high school.”

another question, are Domm and Cherry Cola related, or do they just look similar with the red hair?

No. I actually did consider making them cousins, though, because yeah, they do look similar, and they’re the two that really genuinely don’t like each other!

Thanks for satisfying my curiousity. 🙂
This makes the Candy Hearts even more adorable, that they are still so innocent.