oh man who could it be, i don’t even know
don’t tell me, i don’t want to be spoiled
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TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (Jonathan leaning in to argue; Alex recoiling)
Alex: What? No!
Jonathan: No, I see what’s going on here. You were just waiting to pounce at the first sign of trouble! You don’t know what a marriage is like! Or a family! If someone makes a mistake, you don’t just leave them behind!
Panel 2 (Jonathan, hand on chest)
Jonathan: I didn’t leave Imogen behind when she needed me. If it weren’t for you, she’d want to work this out. That’s what family does. If she leaves, she’s giving up on us.
Panel 3 (Alex, angry)
Alex: I’m not making her do anything! She finally knows she deserves better than this!
Panels 4 and 5 (Jonathan, close up; speaking then cut-off mid-sentence)
Jonathan: Stop pretending you care about what she wants. You just want her for your-
voice, off-panel, flirtatious: Oh, hey Jon!
Is there an image in this? Nothing’s loading here or in my RSS feed.
“I didn’t leave Imogen behind! I just cheated on her and then returned! Totally different!”
Also, if the off-panel voice is who I think it is, I’m gonna absolutely lose my mind. (And potentially have a new favorite tertiary character).
Ah. So this is who the fast food is for!
Oh, now he wants to talk about family and marriage! None of that seemed to matter before when he was sleeping with another woman. Jon really is a scumbag.
“I just cheated on her and broke my marriage vows, I never left her behind!”
Dingus McMingus over here making some very flimsy attempts at justification…
Quick headsup, are the gray dots in Alex’s hair intentional, or artifacts from coloring? They’re a little distracting, sorry. Otherwise, loving this comic!
Oh, artifacts from file compression, likely. I use tinyPNG to make the pages easier to load across devices.
She’s gone grey in two minutes because Jonathan is THAT much of a terrible person /j
gosh what if he brought food for himself and his mistress because he didn’t expect them to be there CAN YOU IMAGINE
As someone who’s “baby daddy” called for take out for himself and the girl he was screwing FROM MY DELIVERY ROOM, yeah…I sadly can.
“Anyway, how’s your sex life?”
“Oh, y’know, cheated on my wife, trying to gaslight my way back into her bed.”
“What a funny story, Jon!”
Jon is just pulling out ALL of Gaslighting’s Greatest Hits. Imogen’s not the one wrecking her family, my dude, and she sure as hell puts her kids above you. Just the absolute gall of including himself under the umbrella of “family.”
GOD he’s so perfectly infuriatingly written. <3
Criminy… The sheer audacity of this parasite.
he’s really telling on himself in that last panel “You don’t care about what she wants, you just want her for yourself.”
This dude is so toxic. Hope the lover is the one talking or maybe one of the neighbors coming here to tell him to shut up or sth.
Part of me hopes its jackie coming back from walking her dog to suprise johnathan with another slap to the face or somethin. Luring him in with fake friendliness…
Love how folks like Jonathan can sum up a full-blown affair, including multiple flirtatious texts, and using the name of his girlfriend for a bank account password, as “A” mistake. This is a full string of conscious decisions, my guy! You can’t downplay your way outta this!
He has a beard in first panel, but not in subsequent panels
To be fair, we only see his chin one more time, but…yep, his scraggly goatee does indeed disappear. I hope this implies there was a moment we missed where Alex literally slaps it off his terrible awful no-good very-bad face.