200 – Inclusion
I reached the big 200 today!
And like I did with 100 before, it’s a glorious full page. Hundreds are special, after all.
Laurence is going home, but she left us a parting gift. A tall girl all dressed in orange, who deserves quite a lot to be promoted to main character status. This wraps up this storyline rather well, doesn’t it?
Chapter’s over folks! Well almost. There’s one panel left, along with a profile page next week, I’m letting you guess who it’s gonna be.
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Half expected today’s comic to be in SPACE!
You also gotta respect Lau’s authority!
I almost felt like it too… but I thought I needed something more grounded this time. Well, mostly.
Well, that was a very kind thing to do, Laurence. You deserve a hug in return for that.
She’ll appreciate it I’m sure.
But… but… why not both?
She has so much 4th wall knowledge, she probably knows Dez doesn’t like drawing many characters all the time. Though the others don’t seem to know it. :-)
But other than that, I was wondering about it, too. Maybe she has confidence-issues.
Well, like Alex says, Laurence is way too… mysterious, I guess to be a main character. This whole thing was a red herring to promote Clementine anyway. As a fan favorite with almost as much presence as the main five, I’ve been really wanting to make her more important for a while.
I’ve always thought of her as a main character. I just looked at the cast page and wondered if she always was in the list of the main cast or if you moved her away from the secondary characters recently. Because in the former case this was probably the main reason I’ve always thought of her as a main character.
Btw: You need to add a shop at some point or put some stuff into e.g. sharkrobot.
Nah, she wasn’t there before. I bumped her among the main cast this morning, and put Laurence at the top of the secondary cast list. :)
And yes, I definitely want to have a shop on the website before the end of 2017. I’ll look into that suggestion.
What about five icons picture on the right panel? Shouldn’t it become six icons button?
Congratulations, Dez. That’s a great ending for a chapter and a great page all by itself.
Clem looks extremely fine, maybe even more gorgeous than in her summer outfit. I wonder, how did Laurence get her cellphone? She has some pickpocket skills?
Also, guess who was right about banner changing? :)
Thanks Clif!
And yeah, I really like drawing the girls in their winter outfits now, it was really hard to do at first but I’ve grown used to it.
And her cellphone? I dunno, is it that weird for Laurence to have a cell phone? It’s probably the least weird thing about her. :)
And yup. You were 100% right with that one.
I thought that was Clem’s phone, since Laurence never took it back) But I guess she doesn’t care about her cellphone much.
Also, I thought square speech bubbles were Clem’s thoughts. Clementine and Laurence are very much alike)
She didn’t take it back because she probably doesn’t care. But yeah, it’s lavender purple, just like the narration boxes are. That’s Laurence’s color, not Clementine’s! Color codes are quite important in this comic!
But I did make the text a bit ambiguous, because even though it’s obviously Laurence narrating when the strip is over, her thoughts in the first panels could very well be Clementine’s.
Aw, what a bittersweet ending. Let me guess: Laurence was changing her mind on page 198 in panel 2? That facial expression…
When Laurence is holding the Cellphone, it looks like it’s already dialing the number. :-)
HAH!
Exactly. You can see exactly where Laurence realizes Clementine should have been there in that strip when she hears everyone has something to say about her.
And yup. She’s already ninja-called Marie before handing her cell to Clementine.
Man, the Ninja-calling, the mentioning of Noelle, Laurence sure knows how to spice up conversations. It’s fascinating, but I see why you can’t have a constant-4th-wall-breaker stick around for too long.
Sometimes I fantasize about going into a fictional world and resolving plot-points like how she did it with Clem just now, but when writing stories for other people to read, a Deus Ex Machina move like that is very difficult to time well and has to be used sparingly.
It was well done here, but if that blabbermouth had stuck around for much longer it would have become quite difficult to keep her in-character without her Deus Ex Machina’ing all the conflicts. I mean, she IS a good person AND has the meta-knowledge to do the resolving. Sad, sad, but I guess she has to go indeed.
There’s definitely a few other comics that could do with Laurence coming along to help give the plot a shove.
I wouldn’t worry much about her resolving every problem with meta-knowledge, if she stayed too long. I’ve heard of the trouble DMs can have trying to herd their players in the right direction; this would be just as hard.
I mean, we’ve already had Chloe tell M-N that Clem likes her, and M-N just doesn’t believe it. Hearing it from Laurence probably won’t change that.
Aha, and now Clementine is part of the banner of main characters at the top… Very nicely done.
I’m always one step ahead!
Did my heart just skip a beat?
Because that was adorable
Aw thank you.
Congrats on 200 comics :D
And now, Laurence’s work is done, she can go back where she came from… can’t wait to see her again.
hmmm. Laurence already has Marie-Neige’s number and picture on her phone? (I assume it’s hers by the color and that it appears to vanish with her.) This call also means Marie-Neige now would have Laurence in her received calls list, and could call her back. Also, Laurence’s area code could be very interesting.
And YAY times 200! Frivolesque is the best part of Mondays.
I’ll… try to think of all those cell phone details next time. ;)
And thank you so much!
She probably also has Noelle’s number.
Love love LOVE the Clem piece. It’s been so long since she was the focus of anything. I could see a Clem x Laurence ship sailing, but I’m still dead set on Clem x Chloe.
I KNEW you’d like this turn of events. :)
Laurence is just a doll ill keep in mind her kindness to Clementine.
Maybe Laurence will become an official main character in another 200 strips.
Wait, is Laurence an expert pickpocket, or did she just give clementine a free smart-phone?
The answer is yes.
It looks like the cell phone might have disappeared when Laurence did. If so that solves the problem of what arcane knowledge might be found on it (such as Noelle’s number mention by another commenter).
Besides, that cellphone isn’t really the right color for Clem; she can’t possibly keep it.
Thank you Laurence…and good for you Clem!
I missed posting here. I’m happy to see Clementine getting a bit of spot light. It means more her with Marie-Neige :P
Those two are just…..*goes off to imagine a whole universe dedicated to those two*