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familial stranger, page 2

Added 2018-03-16 00:39:59 +0000 UTC

well, let's get the shitty part over with. this comic is about lola and her dad, jason, but the first few pages are about lola and her mother, elizabeth.
i could have jumped straight to the part where she contacts jason and expositioned away the explanation for how lola scrounged up jason's contact information, but i felt like showing the maternal interactions would help build on themes and contrasts i want to go for here.
to keep the focus on jason in spite of this, my goal was to keep elizabeth's screen time brief; the next page is where she exits the scene, and after that is one page with lola talking to sugar about her refreshed thoughts on her mother. after that, elizabeth is only mentioned briefly one more time between jason and lola in later pages.

that said, for this specific page... i was considering having lola misremember microbiology as "biomed" or something similar, but between her or her mother being the one who comes off as a little dense, the latter was 100% what i preferred. the implication that lola pays enough attention to sugar talking about her education and job to be able to recall her major, even if unconfidently, is sort of sweet to me.

also... aging furries visually is Hard.