1st Jun 2016, 7:38 AM
in Ch. 29: Transitions
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Jocelyn
1st Jun 2016, 7:38 AM
Over 350 pages later, we're FINALLY out of February. Now that's what I call WOOOOO-worthy. XD
Anyway, the only truly important part of this page is panel 2, where the blazers are announced to no longer be mandatory (and yes, presumably, the students COULD still wear them, but I'm sick of drawing them so probably no one will). Why is not having blazers important? Emily will have a harder time keeping her pregnancy a secret, of course. Even if she continued to wear hers by choice, it would merely draw more attention to her.
Originally, this page was planned to just be an expository narration from Rain, talking about a couple different things (already mostly covered in the last few weeks worth of pages), and then "and now we don't need to wear blazers anymore". Since most of that narration was fleshed out by actual scenes, that really left the blazer thing as the only thing that needed to be talked about (and it IS kind of important). But how do you fill a page with one sentence of narration? You turn it into miscellaneous banter among lesser acknowledged characters like Devon, Rob, Aidyn, and Madison.
Special mention goes out to Aidyn and Madison because who the hell are they even? I wonder how many readers actually remember them. Their last canon appearance was in Chapter 6 and they didn't do anything. They're bit part characters who happened to have names, but never actually contributed anything to anything. For a while, I considered never including them again to just drop them from the story figuring no one would notice or care. But they may yet have some use. Not just yet, mind you, but as long as I'm having less common characters chat with each other here, it was a nice way to reintroduce them into the story. ^_^
©2004-2016
Rain, all characters and all other aspects of the story are copyright material belonging to me.
As you may probably know by now, I'm saving up for my (hopefully) upcoming SRS date in a few months. If you're able, you can help me out. Buying books, or shirts, or just plain donations are all very helpful right now. Obviously, if you are unable to or don't want to offer anything monetary, that's totally fine and I completely understand. There are other ways you can help. Like voting for Rain on TopWebComics or joining/sharing the Facebook page (or even just telling your friends!) can help spread the word about my work. Thanks for anything you can do; no hard feelings if you can't. ^_^
Anyway, the only truly important part of this page is panel 2, where the blazers are announced to no longer be mandatory (and yes, presumably, the students COULD still wear them, but I'm sick of drawing them so probably no one will). Why is not having blazers important? Emily will have a harder time keeping her pregnancy a secret, of course. Even if she continued to wear hers by choice, it would merely draw more attention to her.
Originally, this page was planned to just be an expository narration from Rain, talking about a couple different things (already mostly covered in the last few weeks worth of pages), and then "and now we don't need to wear blazers anymore". Since most of that narration was fleshed out by actual scenes, that really left the blazer thing as the only thing that needed to be talked about (and it IS kind of important). But how do you fill a page with one sentence of narration? You turn it into miscellaneous banter among lesser acknowledged characters like Devon, Rob, Aidyn, and Madison.
Special mention goes out to Aidyn and Madison because who the hell are they even? I wonder how many readers actually remember them. Their last canon appearance was in Chapter 6 and they didn't do anything. They're bit part characters who happened to have names, but never actually contributed anything to anything. For a while, I considered never including them again to just drop them from the story figuring no one would notice or care. But they may yet have some use. Not just yet, mind you, but as long as I'm having less common characters chat with each other here, it was a nice way to reintroduce them into the story. ^_^
©2004-2016
Rain, all characters and all other aspects of the story are copyright material belonging to me.
As you may probably know by now, I'm saving up for my (hopefully) upcoming SRS date in a few months. If you're able, you can help me out. Buying books, or shirts, or just plain donations are all very helpful right now. Obviously, if you are unable to or don't want to offer anything monetary, that's totally fine and I completely understand. There are other ways you can help. Like voting for Rain on TopWebComics or joining/sharing the Facebook page (or even just telling your friends!) can help spread the word about my work. Thanks for anything you can do; no hard feelings if you can't. ^_^
User comments:
I hate having to wear button downs/ties. Fortunately our "light wear" as one might call it is a silk polo and no tie, which is wonderful.
That's more or less my reasoning. While there are some narrated monologue pages throughout the comic, I tend to kind of hate those. This page feels a little random and out of nowhere, but it's considerably more interesting (I think) than just being told what happened. :)
Also, awesome Drew is awesome :D
Of course, she did insist on wearing pantyhose rather than thicker tights like most of the girls!
Actually, Rain rather likes the uniform.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/402/
But one could probably attribute that to, like you said, her finally being able to wear that kind of thing. ^_^
Emily could say that the blazers are more model student-like! To have a "perfect" year, one should be a "perfect" student. ~
Still, I feel we will see some drama between now and then, things rarely go perfectly. ;_;
I wear a uniform at work. It is not the worst thing, especially when deciding what to wear in the morning (and when buying them, because I get a uniform-allowance, which means I don't have to pay a cent for work clothes)