Is this chapter when I develop a consistent way to colour night scenes? We’ll see! We’ll be here… a few weeks.
Apologies to any Melissas.
EDIT: Kudos to Alabibecia in the comments for making me realize the Imogen’s texts to Jonathan would be in his text history… sometimes it takes a village. Edited the comic and transcript to reflect that.
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TRANSCRIPT
(Another page with no dialogue! We’re almost done these. Imogen stands at the doorway to the ensuite bathroom, looking at Jonathan in bed. She looks resolved. She sneaks across the floor and grabs his phone, unlocking it with his thumbprint. We just assume this is before phones widely stopped using thumb ID scans, because it was scripted in like 2019 and it reads better than Face ID. Imogen scrolls the text messages:)
___aglardi, 9:45PM: Yeah, that’s no problem – we’ll get to it tmrw.
Melissa Bainbridge, 2:42PM: OMG NOooo haha!! Did you change it?
Ginny Dawson, 2:06PM: oh yeah that makes sense! duh! haha thank you!!
:O :O :O :O
My phone uses fingerprint to authenticate so I find this completely plausible!
I’m getting butterflies in the stomach just thinking about this.
Google’s newest Pixel 5 phone brought back the fingerprint reader. I suspect masks will be more common going forward, and fingerprint readers will be popular again.
As a feedback sorta deal, Face ID thing didn’t even occur to me; I’ve literally never seen anyone who uses it.
Also _oh no_ I just got the last few pages.
Not me going back there panels to see if there was a timestamp for the messages that were sent from Imogen to him…
I may or may not have been cheated on to know how to snoop effectively.
You made me realize Imogen’s texts to him would be in his history before the lunch text, omg, thank you. 😀
Raise your hand if you tried to click Melissa’s messages to read them….
I did it xD I am so curious, I want to know what’s going on
My Galaxy s20 uses a fingerprint ID, and also a pattern password… my partner knows my pattern, just in case. (So does my eldest child, as qe have no landlines to dial emergency services if needed…)
This is so suspenseful, and it feels like there’s going to be tears and heartbreaks in the future. Not just for Imogen, but for the kids and how Imogen will have to juggle being a single parent, or in a more confirmed manner
I’m surprised his sent texts are not also there. What a jerk!
Oh wow! You talk about the scripting so lightheartedly, but between the way the panels are set up and the nighttime light, I really feel, viscerally, how difficult and brave a thing this is for Imogen to do. Particularly the anime-esque opaque glasses in the first panel and the look on her face as she sits on the floor of her bedroom – cheating is such a standard plotline in fiction like this, but your emphasis of how *alone* Imogen is in these moments, how much of her life she’s questioning, makes it new.
I’ve loved since the beginning how even though Imogen is, seemingly, a ‘standard’ suburban mom, she’s not *really* a standard suburban mom. Between her being as plugged in as she is to internet/meme culture, how she gets edged out of the mom friend groups, how you’ve made her whole adult life wrapped up in her children to the point that she never got to find out who she is – you walk a really beautiful line between not going all Not Like Other Girls on suburban moms, while also acknowledging how conformist and stifling that culture can be, how hard, how lonely, how invisible all the work that goes into it is.
I say this now because those panels feel like what all of that intelligent, thought-provoking examination of Mom Life (TM) has been building up to. I just…I’m so excited to see what the next steps of Imogen’s life are.
(Also, it still feels completely believable that fingerprint ID would still be a thing – especially considering that since the Dawsons are having money troubles, they’re not likely to be constantly updating their tech.)