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this explains everything!

#original comic #they're on a camping #is josh trying to be a good friend or just a passive aggressive one #yeah #these are the dangers of letting your boyfriend hang out with your friends #also: exclusive look at the other side of the van. thrilling stuff

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who has the biggest ego?

inconclusive

#original comic #ask #this concludes the asks currently in my inbox! #answers to 'who is humblest?' -> josh: me. jack: josh. ennie: me. thomas: jack #answers to 'who is most talented?' -> josh: ennie. jack: thomas. ennie: me. thomas: me #(although upon reviewing these results josh wants the record to state that he's the only one who plays two instruments) #(the harmonica doesn't count) #answers to 'who is best-liked in the group?' -> josh: jack. jack: thomas. ennie: pass. thomas: me #make of this what you will

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josh how did your parents die?

he's got a point

#original comic #ask #you thought this would be poignant? it's about cars now #ennie doesn't have a driver's licence but he's still pissed about being demoted to the backseat so he won't dignify it with being awake

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photos versus memories

bonus content under the cut!

#original comic #josh is listening to space oddity in the middle image. he's not very good at being a goth #but it is still helpful in several ways #celina forgave him for giving up on it. eventually #josh spent his years bursting into puberty grieving and also hanging out with essentially just two people his own age #which no doubt did normal things to him only #off-screen thomas is having his own arc reckoning with the fact that his 12 year old sister somehow has acquired a live-in boyfriend #before he even had his first kiss #sometimes the nature of a bonus comic is as such that you have to come up with increasingly more lame sounding excuses to not play the sims #which apparently has a genetic scrambler feature nowadays. who knew?

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just kids playing

#original comic #here it is. the picture in question #here's celina for the second time on this blog! hello alive girl #girl who is slightly better at wearing good goth outfits but then again she has the advantage of not having to take it off before going hom #mrs bennani figured that if the kids were going to do this they better do it safely #also pictured: the face of a man solemnly accepting his sacred duty to make fun of these two people for the rest of his natural life #celina keeps a copy of this picture in her drawers. extremely fond memory for her #i changed the song to go with this

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comforting thoughts

#original comic #they went to albert heijn #i want to make josh' trauma feel 'lived in' #when people learn about a big trauma someone has they're kind of starting at the emotional beginning of it #and you have to take their hand to guide them to the emotional point that you have already arrived at #and this is a conversation josh has had a thousand times already with a thousand people. it's rote #he probably doesn't throw that last part in for everyone #but in many ways he did already have a mental health event in front of jack not that long ago #if you're self-aware about it it basically doesn't count right? #reader do not despair: i will show you the picture in question

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he ended up changing it

it feels silly to post the same song again, even though this page is explicitly about the lyrics, so here is the runner up for last page

sorry this is so funny to me. google says ennie's face spells 'YON'

#original comic #thomas does not identify as mouse-esque #previous page was written specifically for it got old so changing the song last minute was not in the cards #however i was working on the previous page with youtube shuffle on and i'd only ever heard the first half of paradise by the dashboard ligh #and i genuinely had to pauze and open my mouth in shock for a moment. i did not know it was Like That #it fits. is what i'm saying #'open up your eyes i got a big surprise it'll feel alright' is probably also something thomas said with his mouth at some point #that being said. thomas is many things but he's Not meatloaf #also ennie looks so good with his hair up i've changed my mind about him and i've decided he's a catch that anyone would be lucky to have

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these guys haven't really hung out yet before

the song in question

#original comic #it's the second canon song written by a band member! #i like the line 'i'll keep my hands on the steering wheel if you keep your eyes on the road' #the van is sort of like 'the fifth lesbian' so i enjoy the presence of it in songs they write #i should mention that josh has not at any point in his life experienced the emotion known as 'fiiiiiiiine' #but who knows. perhaps he'll be inspired to experience it when he finds out his van significantly lowered in resale value #i couldn't really fit this in the dialogue but thomas is using ennie's air mattress right now. though technically it's josh's #also before any of you cinemasins plothole purists start flooding my inbox: yes thomas' glass pipe has been in the background of some shots #and it'd be more convenient to use lying down on an air mattress than the paper #but thomas is indulging right now and he enjoys the crackle of burning paper

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who'd have thought!

#original comic #the first row of this page was an 2020 original but i didn't like the ending so this is a rewritten version #i'm still not sure what i think of this page. but it's good to have a bit of pay off on jack's family situation #as for josh: what if someone is extremely clearly lying to you but you want what they're saying to be true really really bad. what then #'ummi' means 'my mother' in standard arabic so it doesn't make sense to call someone else's mom that #also i am aware people don't really say ummi out loud in casual situations but the bennanis are quirky and fun #and on a different. equally real. level: standard arabic is the language i know words in and i'm not very good at the dialects #next time i try setting a shelf of groceries as my background please get on a plane and come kill me

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Happy Halloween! I'm beavering away on the upcoming page, but here is a little photo of (most of) the band having pre-fun before heading out to a party, in a universe where they never decided to take this roadtrip. bonus: girl who haunts the narrative

i am kidding, she is very much alive. this is my little halloween joke

version with more women in it #feminism

#original comic #it's two days late but this was drawn on halloween so it still counts #it's the yearly opportunity to annoy ennie by having fun at him. everyone's excited

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problem solved!

#original comic #the scan quality is a little bit shitty because i'm not using my own scanner. but it's fine #this takes place 1-2 days after the previous comic. they're stocking up again after the few days of camping #the song that goes with this is kind of stressful and unpleasant to listen to and so it reminded me of this page #the nature of josh's brain is as such #that it will come up with reasons for why he is a moral failure if he doesn't do the things he least wants to do #but that combined with that the reason he least wants it is because he wants it. paralysis #anyway. the return of the eep of possibly perceived sexual deviancy #also thomas does not actually wear his nailpolish to haunt and vex josh. he wears it because his teen idol/crush was kurt cobain #he started painting his nails in college to be more like him and the habit stuck

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these guys

#original comic #well I just think it's funny if they have a little routine about this. pillow and blankets #song choice for ennie of course #imagine pouring your heart out to a guy AND laughing at his unfunny jokes #and in return getting to hear him suck off some fucking 30 year old twice #Ennie got two seperate compliments from the readership on his ability to participate in a conversation and laugh a normal amount at things #and he'd like to put it back to you. what's he getting for this?? BUPKIS #and also josh is here. he'd very much like to be excluded from this narrative

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good talk

#original comic #whoooo is in the mood for a thomas song! #this one goes out to everyone who wanted to know what his nipples look like (they're just straightforward nipples) #jack meanwhile failing to study the basic guidelines for being on team fun #also random fact is that jack is either the worst or the best person to sleep next to because he runs hot like a little furnace #it's pleasant when you're in a car parked next to a lake though #speaking of the lake. i hope no one got attached because this is the last page in the lake arc. we're getting these girls back on the road

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to be fair, that is pretty funny

#original comic #this is one of the key pages i've had in mind since 2021ish? when i plotted out how i wanted the story to go roughly #so it's exciting to finally get here #the grand reveal that thomas is in fact capable of other facial expressions than 'chill smile' #well. he not-smiled once before in the gas station one. which this page obviously is a sequel to #the biggest reveal of this page is obviously that jack's hair is now long enough to put in a ponytail though #shout out to my Gamer advisor who helped select which shirt he should wear

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I was wondering what the mental health situation is in the band. Any diagnoses?

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#original comic #ask #jack's line is the unofficial sequel to the previous ask #ennie has official diagnoses but he self-undiagnosed <3 #slightest bit of insight in josh's backstory. he's not the person who came up with that line

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Was being in a band a childhood dream for any of the members?

well guys, what did you want to be when you grow up?

i had to get their childhood selves in, because as adults, their answers look more like this

Also some more childhood content under the cut. we're not going to be dwelling on these guys' backstories, there's a beautiful music journey to focus on!

#original comic #ask #it's a between-arc hiatus! as opposed to intra-arc hiatus! #the adults are enjoying a beautiful dutch breakfast consisting of chocolate sprinkles on bread. real ones know what i'm talking about #also from left to right: true. thinks that's true. lie. true #also to answer the question proper. no the band is more of a manifestation of other dreams

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epilogue: return of the power couples

#original comic #posts from a world where time spent together is a standard 2x2 webcomic #these aren't really part of the arc per se. so they're simplified pages #mostly i wanted a bit more time on jack's emotional state #and it's important to me that everyone knows thomas overcooked those potatoes #also it's not uncommon for ennie to disappear around dinner time