At long last, Ky finally appears. (In girl mode, for the record. We'll confirm that soon enough, but I wanted to limit the potential misgenderings until then.) Drew, Randy, Devon, and Rob also cameo, but we probably won't see much more of these boys this chapter. It seems that, like Debbie and Holly, Drew also may have been invited. But he's passing on that invitation to hang with his own friend group, while Ky goes on to the pool party.
I know some people are probably surprised to see Ky and Drew go separate ways here, but it's just one party, and they're still (just) friends. They're allowed to hang out with different people, and they're both doing what they want to do. ^_^
Fun fact: In the Little Victories music video, the bus depicted at the very end was based on the one found on this page. It's not identical because I didn't have a full bus reference to provide. But when it came time to draw a bus for this page, I actually referenced the one in the video, because it had the angle I wanted to work with, but it ended up not being exact either. You may be wondering, "Jocelyn, why are all the buses slightly different?" And I'm just going to make up some nonsense excuse like, "Well you see, Centerville has been changing over their buses since 2004, but the budget allotted to the transportation department has been paltry at best, hence why the process is taking so long and why all the buses look different now. All three buses shown so far were received in different years, and the design just wound up being a little different each time, but only slightly."
Not a word of this will ever be important to the story, and I don't know if it even makes sense, logistically speaking. But I figured if I didn't mention the bus, someone would ask and I'd have to think of something anyway. So I just preemptively thought up some bus canon for concerned parties.
Anyway, look forward to some more Ky next week! XD
Anyone else feeling totally reinvigorated for this story now that High School is over? Already the group is shedding habits and growing! So Proud and Happy! And Drew is being decent again! Now the only Questions I have left for the pool party is if Gavins dad knows who Rain is and will Anna spill the beans about herself?
Whether he remembers or not may be another story, but he has been told... Back around xmas, Gavin needed advice, and he knew he could ask his dad, but his mom would have freaked....
Gosh I love some thoughtful, detailed public transportation canon in my webcomics!
On a more serious note, I'm glad to see Ky and Drew again - So far Drew's character most resembles the people in my life so he holds kind of a special spot in my favorites list. And Ky is just plain amazing and I love them. ^_^
The bus thing totally makes sense. My city has old busses, like decade old busses, busses from the past 5 years, and natural gas burning busses. All of them have slightly different designs.
I've lived in three different metropolitan areas with mass transit that I paid any attention to. One of those was relatively small, and I only ever saw a tiny fraction of its buses. I don't recall noting any differences in their bus models, but those were the first mass transit buses that I used and it was very long ago.
The other two have both had bus systems with at least three different generations of buses, because they usually don't retire old buses until they actually stop working.
The mass transit system for the city I'm in right now actually has a set of buses that are actually classified as a subway train line, and they have a very distinctive look to those. But even with that, there's still model differences like this, because the same principle applies. It's just that there are appearance requirements that the bus vendors are required to satisfy that makes them less apparent to the casual commuter.
I think the biggest reason that people expect the buses to all look the same is change blindness. I've overheard someone admitting to having been wrong about what the bus looked like on multiple occasions, and when I say that they'd just upgraded the bus, the response has always been one of surprise. At least once, the response was, "They do that?"
I don't think it's unusual for a city's busses to not all be the same... I kinda expect most run a continual replacement program where the oldest/highest mileage/least reliable is replaced. They typically have a pretty decent service life, and doing continual replacement instead of periodic complete fleet replacement will help maintain the fleet better. Also, if some recall happens on a specific one, only a small subset of the fleet is likely impacted, as opposed to the entire fleet....
I mean, in my area we have three different styles of buses, all run by the city (& that's not even counting the tourist buses!) so I don't think it's unrealistic at all!
I'm not completely certain that's possible... There's plenty of retro games that are unbeatable - you get to a place where it's impossible to continue, or the game simply glitches out ...
Battletoads for the NES (on which Fighter Frogs is based) is famous for two things:
1. Being super-hard to beat on single-player.
2. A glitch on Level 11 when playing co-op, which makes the game literally impossible to beat on co-op. As in LITERALLY literally; Level 11 CANNOT be beaten with two players.
At least Fighter Frogs isn't based on Cheetahmen 2. That would just be mean.
echoing a few comments already made, i live in a big (enough) city, and all the buses are different. they come in short, shorter, normal, long, 'fancy', new, electric, hybrid... i wouldn't worry about it too much!
On a more serious note, I'm glad to see Ky and Drew again - So far Drew's character most resembles the people in my life so he holds kind of a special spot in my favorites list. And Ky is just plain amazing and I love them. ^_^
I've lived in three different metropolitan areas with mass transit that I paid any attention to. One of those was relatively small, and I only ever saw a tiny fraction of its buses. I don't recall noting any differences in their bus models, but those were the first mass transit buses that I used and it was very long ago.
The other two have both had bus systems with at least three different generations of buses, because they usually don't retire old buses until they actually stop working.
The mass transit system for the city I'm in right now actually has a set of buses that are actually classified as a subway train line, and they have a very distinctive look to those. But even with that, there's still model differences like this, because the same principle applies. It's just that there are appearance requirements that the bus vendors are required to satisfy that makes them less apparent to the casual commuter.
I think the biggest reason that people expect the buses to all look the same is change blindness. I've overheard someone admitting to having been wrong about what the bus looked like on multiple occasions, and when I say that they'd just upgraded the bus, the response has always been one of surprise. At least once, the response was, "They do that?"
1. Being super-hard to beat on single-player.
2. A glitch on Level 11 when playing co-op, which makes the game literally impossible to beat on co-op. As in LITERALLY literally; Level 11 CANNOT be beaten with two players.
At least Fighter Frogs isn't based on Cheetahmen 2. That would just be mean.