SS7 23 Bottle tops and broken dreams

skyangel on Aug. 12, 2019

Life and everything else has been slowing me down a lot lately as far as the comics concerned. I've used up all my buffer and I haven't got anything ready for Becky to colour either this week so this is probably a good point to take a break for a couple of weeks.

Todays page is another flashback to events over the previous six months and during my break I've decided it will hopefully make it more readable by putting a countdown of weeks in the title box as we move towards the present day.

Thanks for your support though as always and apologies for the delay.

Sky

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gennaeve at 6:29PM, Aug. 12, 2019

ouch

skyangel at 3:36PM, Aug. 14, 2019

Gennaeve: Janey touched an old wound there. :)

Fruitbat44v2 at 3:00PM, Aug. 12, 2019

Sky, R/L takes priority and sometimes a break is just what's needed. Thanks for mentioning last week about the strip that people were giving people space. I think the countdown timer might be a good idea, some of us - okay, me - have found keeping track a little difficult. As for this week's strip, good looking top panel which sets the scene - I wonder what Janey's dream was - intermediate panels nice and simple and then the last the frame, silent and perhaps one of the saddest frames in this comic. Have a nice break.

skyangel at 3:49PM, Aug. 14, 2019

Fruitbat: I think if this final chapter was read as a finished comic it would seem clearer but because we have a whole week between each update I can see how the jumping around can be confusing. I'll be able to post 'The story so far..' in the edit box more from now on too which will help but I think a countdown will also make it clearer how Sarah's time spent between Lucy and Janey fit into the flashbacks too. **** Funnily enough in my first draft Janey began the page by saying '..and then an elephant was eating my umbrella!' but I thought readers might assume there was something cryptic in the line so I did away with it.

SaveTheRejects at 7:42AM, Aug. 12, 2019

That last line is heartbreaking, and something I've come to resonate with in the last few years.

skyangel at 3:54PM, Aug. 14, 2019

STR: I guess we all have moments like that in our lives where something that once evoked happy feelings or memories becomes connected to painful ones instead. It is sad.

PBandJ at 4:23AM, Aug. 12, 2019

Whoa, did the temperature just drop?

skyangel at 3:55PM, Aug. 14, 2019

PBandJ: It felt like it to me :)

BearinOz at 3:53AM, Aug. 12, 2019

Hmmm... ouch ! and, um, we seem to have the "wrong" bird in panel one B)

DarkVisor at 6:35AM, Aug. 19, 2019

Thought it was a lost kookaburra at first...

skyangel at 3:55PM, Aug. 14, 2019

Bear: I'm getting tired of drawing crows. lol

NicAndBen at 2:28AM, Aug. 12, 2019

Way to move on Sarah. And hopefully Janey, too. Completely understand life getting in the way of comic-making! Hope you enjoy your break, though :)

DarkVisor at 6:05AM, Aug. 15, 2019

Still team S&J :D

skyangel at 4:08PM, Aug. 14, 2019

Nic and Ben: Thanks. I do love doing the art for this most of the time but the hot weather made me lethargic and then my enthusiasm waned so I felt it best to take a break. ************ DV: I like to think Janey genuinely did just feel it was a cool thing to find and shared it without thinking. :)

DarkVisor at 6:03AM, Aug. 12, 2019

Maybe this was a test by Janey to see if Sarah had moved on: answer is "YES!!" (or has she? ;) )

SS7 23 Bottle tops and broken dreams

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