Closing Time [53 - 60]

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Closing Time [53 - 60]

Or

Saving private (Citizen) Diana

I mean, yeah, by default.

Welcome to a new edition of, “this was going to be the last update to this comic but I came up with more stuff so next one will be the last for real” of the Closing time AKA Stuff happens the comic. 

Originally this batch would have been 3 pages, last time I had expanded it to 6 pages but it ended up (so far) being 16 pages and split in two. 

I got to expand the rock band vs circus aspect and got to play just a bit more with my new guys. 

Like Mikey, the acrobat deer. For male cervines to follow dance and acrobatics as a Career it's common practice to shed their antlers constantly so they don't hurt their partners or themselves which just adds to the stereotype of it being girl and gay men activities. He doesn't mind though. His jumpsuit has a straight line across it and he has joked in the past that that is the only straight thing about him.

Or Lady Fátima! the mentalist Lemur! Not her real name though, and she's also not Middle eastern. Sadly she's doing a little bit of cultural appropriation, but to be fair it didn't just happen out of nowhere. She inherited the character from the great Salman, an old mentalist who was actually from the middle east who mentored and gave Fátima her stage name and persona when she was his assistant-apprentice. 

The circus is a collective but she's the closest thing to an owner as most of the infrastructure is to her name. She's in her late 30s and has lived a lot so she sees the band and the main bohemians we know as a bunch of kids. Also in my mind she sounds like Mexican voice actress Erica Edwards which would be double casting as that's also the voice Diana usually has in my head.

And finally the summoner. AKA, the master of ceremonies. You know, the gorilla. Probably the oldest member of the collective now that the great Salman is sadly not with us anymore. The summoner was a kind of failed actor before he joined the circus to announce the act. It's insane that he didn't try voice acting because he has a great deep voice but I guess he didn't because he yearns for the live audiences. He's there for the clapping. Speaking of voice actors, in my mind he would be played by Colombian voice actor Juan Carlos Tinoco, which is just a fun fact I'm adding because I love the contradiction of him having a voice actor assigned even though in all the pages he has appeared he hasn't said shit. [Edited: I guess he did say something on page 57 but the implication with the “censoring" is that whatever he yelled he apparently got bleeped. Lmao]

Now that you know more about these characters, look at me waving my wand and finishing my magic trick as we probably won't ever see them again. Lol jk

Now if you ask me, had the fight continued, I think the WornDown Children would have been doomed as a group, but I think RJ would have beaten Dimitri. 

It would have been even though, but in the end Dimitri is an artist, he would have tried to show off, especially knowing who's in the audience, though she's apparently not impressed by that sort of thing. On the other hand RJ is a working man and when he gets into a fight he’s on a “just get the job done” mindset. He's been there, that's why he was trying hard to scalate down. (More on that eventually)

Don't take this as gospel though. If these two titans face off against each other again eventually I may change my mind. And that's a big if tho, but luckily for now Diana and Sylvie (and Dominique) have saved the day Lion King 2 style. Kinda, at least one of them likes to imagine that. 

Speaking of page 57, I've always liked the old tradition of censoring swearing with symbols pretty funny, I used to do it all the time, not because I'm uncomfortable with swearing but because I've always thought it looks funny but with these comic I've been dropping it because it feel out of place. But I'm now able to bring it back with the context that I didn't really want to write a dialogue for each character on that panel. You're not automatically know what they are saying because they're all talking at the same time. That besides having Zara saying the actual word (fuck(see, I can say it)) in the same panel looks funny to me. Like, then what are they all saying?

Another thing I liked is RJ never beating the dad friend allegations, hitting the not mad just disappointed when Tony, Davo and Tak get in the action. In their defense they really thought they were helping. You know, to intimidate and all that…

Anyway, I think the next update will be the final one, though I clearly can't promise that. After that, as I’ve said before, I have some short comics I've been wanting to make since last year but after that I'm already starting to figure out what my next long one could be and with luck it could be a bit less stuff-happensy lmao. 

Whenever that happens what I do know is that it will be a bit shorter and either, a Diana Tony adventure! Or a Lil Power Hour! Unless I come up with something else.

See you next time