I never interpreted it as Will asking Eve a question? The Brownout Biscuit thing is news to me, I always shoehorned that into the context of a mid-breakup exchange, but it makes some things make sense.
I thought Will came to tell Eve nothing was gonna happen with them (even though she never said anything like that) and draw a line with their flirty friendship, that he's gonna be more serious with Marigold. (Even if that doesn't last.) She tells him probably that she already knows that, but she's still totally deflated by Will having a Talk with her about it and putting distance between them, and being called on something she probably still won't admit. Gives him some platitude she doesn't believe about his new conviction, and goes back in, exhausted.
With the timing and sequence of who's talking, it was the best I could approximate. It feels weird to have that interpretation taken from me, but this one kind of does make more sense.
Although I love the way things played out, given Aimee's significance (significant insignificance) in the story later, specifically Summer for Suckers, I did have times of wondering more about her character. She gets this fantastic verbal takedown moment, and I loved her place in Simple Breakfast. She was supposed to be unattainable, but I always wondered what she was within those gates.
"So... doin' that, huh?" remains one of my favorite lines, and something I still say to friends. It has an elegance of acknowledgement and non-reaction to it.
Going back now that's the comic ended, this definitely feels like the turning point to me. The evolution of Hannah and Eve's characters, and the way in which they kinda "switch," while really only being who they've always been, is what keeps me in love with this comic no matter how many times I reread. I had thought this comic was perfect up to this point. The back half is downright incredible.
I think when I read this story originally I just interpreted Hannah's drink as the kind of glass bottle soda pop you could often get in a diner like this. I also unconsciously decided it was orange cream.
This is actually one of my favorites artistically. Drawing clearly in silhouette is a challenge and an achievement to me
To me, this tiny "perpetually in love" sequence was a small, perfect, deeply nostalgic moment of time, one to cherish, which is really what Octopus Pie specializes in.
This is my favorite chapter. I reread it over and over again. This is possibly my favorite strip, in contest with the "I'm not sure you're even one of the good guys" strip earlier in this chapter. This arc was released over the course of my first semester at college, where I went through a huge personality change and found myself feeling incredibly bitter and angry and exhausted, craving nothing, getting itchy around people, making bad choices, pushing others away. I had previously been boisterous, hyper-laid-back, impulsive, cheerful, perhaps bossy, a little caricatured, and in my cynical self reproach, I felt my entire personality was just finally going bad, like milk. It took a couple years to realize this was mental illness. I'm still working on the specifics, and managing it. This chapter meant a lot to me then and still does now.
Whatcha brushing past there, Ning?
I made the same mistake. The bit that looks like a nose is the dog's ear, and what looks like, hair? I guess? Is the other eye.
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