Rain
Comic 1381 - Off the Bus
Author Notes:
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
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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.