Happy Wednesday!
I sat down yesterday and rescripted the rest of this chapter, which it needed terribly; five hours later, this whole upcoming conversation is 100% better and 33% longer and 200% more brutal, ahahaha. I can’t wait to unfurl it for you.
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TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (the dark treetops of the forest)
Eiji: So? How’s the old house?
Alex: It’s fine.
Eiji: And the neighbourhood?
Alex: Same as always.
Eiji: Does Nolan like her new school?
Alex: Sure.
Eiji: Are you PTA president yet?
Alex: Oh my god, no.
Panel 2 (Eiji follows Alex, who is tersely walking away)
Eiji: Are you still on leave?
Alex: Yeah.
Eiji: So, how are you keeping busy?
Alex: Can we can it with the twenty questions? None of your business, if you’re trying to fix me.
Panel 3 (Eiji, smiling)
Eiji: Geez, sorry for trying to be brotherly.
Panels 4/5 (textless; Alex looks back at Eiji, mouth open as if to say something, then thinks better and looks ahead, fuming)
I am so curious about their relationship. Just looking from here it seems like normal questions but there must be history behind, that is why she is upset. I can relate to this in some way, sometimes people you are related to seem on the surface to be making innocent comments or questions but you know or feel like you know they are actually aiming at something else and you don’t like it
OH MY GOD
The brother’s face drawn as a smiley face without any other features is SO FUCKING PERFECT. It capture the emptiness and meaninglessness of his idea of happiness. And I know you did it on purpose because your detail level of facial expressions is just exquisite.
I only just found this comic today and I can tell I’mma read it all in one sitting. It’s genius.