Page 6 Marrying Young
skyangel on Feb. 17, 2024
This page is also based on one of my earliest memories of wanting to prove myself to be a better husband/father than I felt my dad was although I've had to ad-lib the actual conversations that took place at this age.
The pages so far have all dealt with the external pressures I felt from a young age but from next week we move into the earliest memories I had of relating more to being female than male. I look forward to seeing how some of our readers relate to those pages as they roll out.
Have a nice week!
InkyMoondrop at 3:04PM, Feb. 6, 2025
I like how you make use of some locations to frame the events.
skyangel at 5:29AM, Feb. 7, 2025
Thank you. It certainly makes life easier if I know exactly what background to do for each panel! XD
Genejoke at 10:37AM, April 28, 2024
hah!
gemi at 4:49PM, April 4, 2024
This is cute, even though I don't know if the kids even understand what would constitute as 'she asks for it'.
skyangel at 12:08AM, April 5, 2024
Gemi: I love how kids copy adult phrases without really knowing what they are saying. I imagine taking the ring and eating the candy too would pretty much be 'asking for it' in Nikki's young mind XD
edniz at 3:56AM, March 24, 2024
Seems like I haven't commented on a lot of pages! This page was really cute and I loved how these frames made it feel like a movie scene.
skyangel at 12:01PM, March 26, 2024
Hi Edniz, It's nice to know people are enjoying the comic but leaving comments on every page is hard work so please feel free to just enjoy reading it. :)
Ironscarf at 9:03AM, Feb. 19, 2024
This page would work well as a standalone comic, as well advancing the story as it does. It's just such a magical snapshot of that time we all experience but can never go back to, where so much of our self is shaped. You've carried it off with such charm and the perfect touch of humour here, I leave not entirely dry eyed!
skyangel at 11:43PM, Feb. 20, 2024
Ironscarf: Thank you :) I've often felt their is a small part of that child in me that never grew up which enables me to think in a child like way at times which certainly helps when writing pages like this. It's one thing I've always admired Bill Watterson for too with his 'Calvin and Hobbes' as he was such a master at this type of humour.
MidnightBaelfire at 9:01AM, Feb. 18, 2024
This puts the earlier scene in the Wendy house in such a different perspective than I first thought. Poor Nick. Children are so perceptive and internalize so much.
skyangel at 11:33PM, Feb. 20, 2024
MB: I felt very attached to all females in my early years as my mother, gran, teachers and friends mum's were always such jolly and caring people and I felt a very strong desire to prove to them and myself I would never be like my dad.
tommym at 8:02AM, Feb. 17, 2024
Dear Sky, We here in the states had the same type of swing set except that the chains were more directly parallel. Noticed Nikki drawing a Doctor Who robotic Dallik! Thinking of a song by the Kinks I can still remember adult trying to enroll me in a kindergarden I totally refused. wound up having a much greater time with my grand father, who taught me the most wounderful things Got me model of Polaris submarine and of Rockets great stuff for a 8,9,10 year old love tommym
skyangel at 11:24PM, Feb. 20, 2024
Dear Tommym, I hated kindergarten too. I don't know why but I used to play my mum up a lot by pretending to be sick just to get out of going as I just wanted to stay home and do my own thing. Do you mean the plastic model kits? I seem to recall making the Polaris sub myself and I still have my Saturn V rocket which fascinated me for years by the sheer scale of the fuel compartments to the size of the tiny adults inside!
UnderTheBlackHat at 6:46AM, Feb. 17, 2024
Oh this is so precious! Several of us can remember having similar moments! Usually, for the team it was kind of a 'oh you're going to marry her because you talked to her!' kind of thing. Exceptions of course include one of the team that remembers discussions about which boy in her class would she marry and talk of dresses they would wear? Those were of course held in 'secret' with a clutch of girls surrounding each other to keep things protected from prying boys and adults. It is nice to see this 'memory' extrapolated and we doubt any of us can really remember conversations we had with friends from that time. But it is so cute and yet, without meaning too, kind of scary as adult lives and impressions invade juvenile fantasy. Once again, a lovely page. Thank you for it.
skyangel at 11:19PM, Feb. 20, 2024
UBH: It's lovely to see how you and others relate to these sort of memories! It was only in later years that I realised many of us have similar experiences as we grow which paints a much larger picture of how we tend to develop as adults. So often I've seen children trying to live like adults long before they are ready and it makes me smile to think how serious these things felt back then. I think the 'secrets' you mention show how important it is to females especially to create strong social bonds even at that age.
Othosmops at 5:24AM, Feb. 17, 2024
Some things really shouldn't be rushed. You can also see this in the (bad) example of your parents. And above all, you shouldn't let friends or relatives pressure you into making rash decisions.
skyangel at 11:12PM, Feb. 20, 2024
Very wise advice! If only you had been my best man!