10/11/2015
Today, my dear readers, we wrap up a plot thread that has been dangling since well over a year and a half ago. As you recall, the captive goth duplicate of Jemini was telling her backstory to a mystery person via an on-line ‘counseling session’; today at long last we learn that it was Dr. Jeraukov, criminal psychologist (or psychologist criminal, depending on your perspective), longtime nemesis of Scapula, and former rehabilitation expert of naughty people.
Why has this revelation been kept under wrap for so long? Why doesn’t this have a bigger impact on the situation at hand? The answer is brutally honest and fairly simple: the storyline changed drastically over the course of the year it’s been running. Memento Mori has gone through so many changes since its original draft (as is the case with every story I write, but especially so for a lengthy epic like this one), and the planned chapter of Dr. Jeraukov and Jemini’s scheme was ultimately removed in favor of more important plot details. With the webcomic going on hiatus at the end of the year I still felt it was important to wrap up that thread lest anyone catch me afterwards and scream, “Who the flying hell was she Skyping with?!”
As for Dr. Jeraukov’s plot, the deleted scenes will be included as a bonus chapter if/when Scapula: Memento Mori goes to print and also as an extra for Patreon backers to see ahead of time. Creating comics ain’t simple, my friends, but I do what I do to keep you amused!
“… Sanderson! You can’t wear a paisley jacket and polka-dot tie! Please, you can’t!”
He’s wearing white after Labor Day…granted, Labor Day was a month ago, but that still counts as “after Labor Day”!
the better question is why her so-called therapy session apparently required her to be partially undressed…
She’s not changing for the Skype camera (notice that the laptop is just facing her empty chair). Jemini is a multi-tasker, and if she can get changed while dealing with snotty doctor appointments all at once then all the better for her!
Well, I must say that’s….. pretty much exactly who I suspected it would be really. That’s odd. I’m so rarely right about such things!
Hm, has Jemini discovered chronically making enemies is a bad thing?! Dun dun DUNNNNN!
I’m calling foofernannery on that; the post-it note you wrote on over a year ago specifically stated that you thought the person on the computer was Kevin Spacey.
….no, wait. I guess you didn’t write that. Well some nutjob did, even though the everyone in the audience knew from the start that he was Keyser Soze!
That’s weird. I must have got my clone from dimension Z mixed up with my clone from dimension 8-ball…… I could have SWORN that post it note predicted it was Keifer Sutherland! This is what happens when you live by DC universe rules.