Comic Transcript
PANEL 1
Mia: I’m sure they got there using this ring. Hmm. How’d they get it off?
PANEL 2
Music: Hey!
PANEL 3
Music: I just met you
PANEL 4
Music: And this is crazy
Mia: Gah! I have got to change my ringtone.
PANEL 5
Mia: Hey Connie! What’s up?
Connie: Molly just called and told me that Chris broke up with Brianna!
PANEL 6
Mia: Wow! Word travels fast in this town. I already knew.
Connie: How did you know? Did Molly call you too?
PANEL 7
Mia: No. Chris told me.
Connie: What?!
October 26, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Most obnoxious song ever? Eh, I’ve heard worse…
October 27, 2012 at 12:37 am
Me too. For me, that would be any recent pop, electronic, rap, or dance. (I prefer classic rock.)
October 27, 2012 at 1:57 am
A lot of the new electronic music sounds like it came from the 80s. Though, I’m a big fan of M83 and Imagine Dragons.
October 27, 2012 at 12:38 am
Evidently Mia was expecting Connie’s reaction, as evidenced by how far she holds the phone away from her ear…
March 10, 2014 at 2:56 am
Five minutes later, the local cellular network crashes, as the rumor mill explodes…
October 27, 2012 at 9:16 am
I see laptop. I’d be straight onto Google researching that book and the things in it.
October 27, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Now, see… Google can ruin the magic.
What if Harry Potter just Googled horcruxes? 😉
(Seriously, though… she’s a teen in the 2010s… she will likely do some research on the computer at some point.)
March 10, 2014 at 2:41 am
She’d better Google on a computer at the library. Otherwise, the Men in Black might show up and try to remove her ring, or worse, try to recruit her. Although, I think she could pull off the whole black suit and sunglasses thing. 🙂 Can’t you see Mia and Will Smith landing hard on the deck of the True North? Will Smith lands flat on his face, then jumps up, dusts himself off, and says, “I meant to do that.” Then he neuralizes anyone who saw him sprawled out on the deck. I’d love to see that as a non-canon filler strip. I’m just afraid that Mia would use her neuralizer to make Brianna forget Chris, and all of high school.
October 27, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Also… there are several torn pages. A lot of what’s in the book are simply illustrations. HMMM.
October 27, 2012 at 9:48 am
I love that song… No I don’t care if that makes me a total nerd.
October 27, 2012 at 10:10 am
It’s catchy! Drives Thom nuts though. LOL You should sing it to him at AUSA. LOL
October 29, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Is it sad that I’ve never heard that song played? I mean yeah, I’ve heard “of” the song, but only that one line, and only because it’s been used many times in other online comics/text jokes… but I have no idea what the tune is though, or who even sings it. 😛
October 29, 2012 at 1:16 pm
It’s “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen…
October 27, 2012 at 11:19 am
I love this comic and have never been able to find the comments thread to tell you how amazing it is…thanks so much for changing the format so I can post my happy feedback! 😀
October 27, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Thank you so much! Glad you like it and glad you can comment now.
October 27, 2012 at 11:50 am
I love her expression as she looks at her phone!
Also, I think the comment ate the last comment I tried to leave, so let me say it again: I am addicted to this comic. And slightly in love with Rhen….
I quit hating that song when my boyfriend used it to ask for my number.
October 27, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Thank you. I am glad you like the comic and Rhen. He is something.
October 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Can you post a chapter a day? Because it’s not interesting, every day only one page! But i love your story.
October 27, 2012 at 4:10 pm
I wish we could do that. Unfortunately, we can’t. We post as we get them done. Then we put them in a book later.
October 27, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Ow… if you can’t it’s ok…
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Do you know that your readers are all over the world?
Like me I from Israel, but I was born in Ukraine, nice to meet you! (my name is Sophia)
October 27, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Hello Sophia. It is a pleasure to meet you.
I am glad we have readers from around the world. I do wonder where all are readers are from.
Thank you for joining us from Israel.
October 27, 2012 at 4:37 pm
That should be “our” not are. Trying to write and wrangle kids. Sorry
October 28, 2012 at 6:41 am
Well, if you’re interested to know…
Finland. Born and raised.
October 28, 2012 at 6:45 am
Yes, I think it would be neat to know where readers are from. Hello to you in Finland…very cool!
October 28, 2012 at 9:51 am
Ah, I love Finland! We used to work on Donald Duck comics. Those are very popular over there. I hear. 🙂
October 29, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I’m from Canada 🙂
October 29, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Awesome! Glad you are reading from Canada! So far we have posters from the Ukraine, from Finland, and now from Canada. Love it!
October 27, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Well, i already posted some comments here but
i guess i never said how awesome this comic is :DD
Love it :DD
keep going!
October 27, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Thank you so much!
October 28, 2012 at 3:10 am
Your comic has some of the best facial expressions I have ever seen. It’s almost like there’s an epic(tm) one every other page. This one, for example, and the one two pages ago, and the one just before that…
October 28, 2012 at 6:48 am
Thank you. I love the expressions Thom usually comes up with too.
October 28, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I just went back to the beginning and noticed how different your style has become. Before the faces used to be rounder and more child-like, but now, everything is more crisp and straight. it’s matured a lot since you began. congratulation i say.
October 28, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Thank you! Yeah, the style has evolved since the beginning. Originally, I drew the comic by hand in pencil and colored it on a Wacom tablet. Now everything is drawn on a Yinova tablet (like a Cintiq).
Some creators go back and redraw older pages to look more like their most current work, but I don’t see myself doing that. To me it’s like airbrushing a high school yearbook to take out the pimples and braces.
April 19, 2013 at 7:44 am
I got a wacom a while back, but I found it so awkward that I boxed it away and never brought it out again. It was tiny… and it really needed a display ON the tablet itself. Trying to draw in smallscale and view the progress on the monitor at the same time was pretty much impossible.
Technology has moved on again since then though. Maybe now there would actually be hope. Drawing on a large touch-screen device, direct to the screen, would be ideal….. assuming it could run an old program like Paint Shop Pro.
October 28, 2012 at 5:30 pm
We are in the path of Sandy. If we lose power pages could be delayed this week. Just FYI. I asked Thom to post but he never did.
October 29, 2012 at 7:29 pm
I love this comic and will continue to love it~
October 29, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Thank you!