11/26/2015
The dead do not come back in this comic, as longtime readers know. This is the end for a character who certainly drummed up a lot of strong emotions both in and outside of the series; whether you hated or sympathized with Bone China is all up to you, but I do enjoy hearing readers’ reactions just the same.
Maybe now is a pretty bad time to say it, but Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful you are not dead at the bottom of a cliff.
Since you want a reaction: Good riddance to bad trash. She seemed to not really know what she was doing and was just drifting around and not caring about the trouble she brought, or worse, she did know and played everyone.
Either way, Good Riddance to Bad Trash.
One vote for Bone China was bad. Check!
Happy Thanksgiving Aidan! I mean, up here Canada-wise we already had ours. Hopefully yours is as great!
I never really LIKED Bone China, but I did like her effect on the story and I kind of regret her passing. To bust out a quote from Jenn if I might: “You don’t get to choose when you die. Someone else gets that choice, be it God, a person, or an animal. All you can hope to do before you die is leave a big enough crater that people remember you as long as possible.” Or to quote another friend of mine: “Life is the gift of suffering and work. Death is the gift of peace. Strive to delay receiving the latter.”
This is not going to be good for Scap’s psyche. I’m thankful for one thing: I’m not in arm’s reach of him!
Thanksgiving and Halloween in the same month…I don’t see why not. Get your turkey for dinner and a bunch of candy for dessert!
Jenn seemed very insightful on matters of life and death, and I’m sure hers is a story worth telling (maybe by someone who doesn’t draw comics about killer sock puppets). It is good to know that others keep her alive in the comments section.
Or perhaps maybe by someone who does. I hate to say it but she probably told you more of her life than she told me, Mr. Casserly. I certainly hear a lot of things from Trev about her that I never knew.
Nazz is toast, hopefully in a VERY painful manner.
Pushed into a gigantic toaster, like one of those big “prop traps” in the ’66 Batman TV show!
Coming up next: Nazz gets her head pulled off Kombat-style by a grief-raging Scapula.
Aww, no ‘Friendship’ fatality? Remember those? Those were silly.
I always felt she deserved better but had fallen into a pattern where it was unlikely to ever happen.
RIP the pale gothy one.
One vote for Bone China was good. Check!
I said deserved better, I never said “faultless”… Humans very rarely are.
You did very well with quite a complex character!
I’d be interested to learn what your intention was for bone china as a character. It can sometimes be difficult to have a concept for a character and then convey that so that audiences receive it in the same way. Was Bone China a schemer or a sympathetic character? Or were you trying to really just give us a true neutral character? She kind of seemed to just go whichever way they wind blew…
A lot of interesting questions, but ones that it’s best if I don’t answer. If I have to explain my intentions with the stories then I’ve failed as a storyteller, and honestly I do believe it is up to readers to decide for themselves what they make of the stories.
If I wanted to force everyone to think the way I do I’d go into politics (hey, it also involves a bunch of fiction)!
stabbed and broken on breakers. A big ending to a major character. I have the distinct feeling Nazz is going to join her down there.
Will she, wont she, will she, wont she, will she join the dance?
If Nazz survives the next strip, it’ll be a Thanksgiving miracle.
Now I know I should have done an animated Scapula Thanksgiving special. Nelson ratings woulda’ been through da roof!
Stabbed, broken on a rock and washed out to sea. Some claim Merlin suffered a similar fate at one time in his life, and though I doubt she’ll return one can certainly see similarity in their role as event-causer and trouble stirrer. Mother wasn’t one for telling fairy tales, but she often told me short stories about her life and they all tended to have one clear moral: If you spend your life causing things to happen, sooner or later they happen back to you, so be careful what you do.
I really like this comic. Just one panel, greyscale, very frozen in time. I imagine this will be burned into Scapula’s eyelids for a long time to come.
“Merlin suffered a similar fate at one time in his life”…but not at the END of his life? Merlin was a tough old bastard!
Glad you enjoyed the comic. Very wise morals taught by your mom, and ones that a lot of parents really should teach. I could go into a rant about how parents don’t want to teach their kids anything because they already think they’re doing a perfect job (hence generation after generation of spoiled and selfish SOBs), but I’ll save that tirade for when I hit middle-age. I can’t wait to shout to some kids to get off my lawn!
And just in case I haven’t made my views CRYSTAL clear…*sings* Ding dong the BITCH is dead….
Which old bitch?
I, uh …
… I think I need to be alone for a while. Dammit.