can't focus long enough to get my overdue homework done but CAN focus on further refining the villain coded outline and in the process arbitrarily assigning birthdays to my funny guys. congratulations on davey lastname for turning 46 again, which will continue each year until i finally make this damn comic, and may buck and minnie prepare to enter this same cursed cycle
i keep thnking about like. the parallels between buck and the ghosts in the movie. Johnnie and Buck have the whole "opposites attract" while being eerily similar. A dead man in love with life and a living man in love with death. Coming across each other by complete chance (stars align type chance, pun not intended) and it's so brief but so important to the both of them. They've both already experienced their fair share of the unnatural and the undead so the situation is almost casual to them. Both are lost in these naive ideas of how the world works and are so headstrong they don't stop until it literally kills them. both end up getting blackbrained because of those ideas. Even if buck survived and Johnnie didn't, they're dead men walking.
and then there's Frankie and Buck's love for a person that doesn't love them back. being devoted to the point of self-destruction, even if they're aware of it and know it's going to end badly they still keep going. Frankie's already been down this path and she tries to get Buck off of it but she already knows its pointless. Frankie's constant use of ghost metaphors in her songs with Buck's ability(?) to speak to the dead. the night we met being Frankie's song but the MV is about Buck. they're both doomed by the narrative and doomed themselves, and knowing this changes nothing. god.
Not a question as much as it is letting you know I realized I would always read Davey's lines from the little comics you post with him in it with Taako's voice from The Adventure Zone and I didn't even realize that's what I was imagining him sounding like until the other day. It just worked in my head.
THAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY. taako's voice is a little bit too high and airy for him but I think the fruitiness level is about correct