Lackadaisy Sendoff
Added 2019-04-11 03:18:41 +0000 UTCPosting this exclusively for Patrons for the moment, just to say thanks for your patience.
This took longer than my projection because I added the next update to it as well. This way, it's much longer than it would have been had I posted it last week, and it wraps up this segment. When it came down to it, I couldn't really justify spreading this bit out across multiple updates. On to another chapter and different characters next time.
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A note about the content:
The temperance movement had some very prominent religious underpinnings, (perhaps most notably the WCTU), but National Prohibition remained a sore topic among a diversity of religious groups, including Catholics, Jews and German Lutherans, who tended more toward the 'wet' side of the debate. It had little to do with the alcohol, though. In part, it was because these groups were enduring some amount of hostile sentiment in America at the time and had reasons to fear escalating establishment-borne scrutiny and persecution predicated on broad policing of the 18th Amendment.
Lutherans seemed particularly incensed by the muddling of gospel with prohibition rhetoric and steadfastly resisted marching to the beat with Baptists, Methodists, and other largely 'dry' Protestant groups. They didn't encourage unlawful rebellion, of course, but a number of ecclesiastics penned anti-prohibition diatribes more colorful and fiery than I could manage to represent here.
Comments
You've surpassed yourself with this strip's dialogue, Tracy. Bravo! Since Tracy brought up the WCTU etc in the comments, if anybody wants the full backstory to... well, kind of everything going on in this entire comic, read "Last Call" by Daniel Okrent. Comprehensive, readable, not overly long.
Matthew Speidel
2019-04-18 13:48:24 +0000 UTCI like how you can absolutely picture the rest of her face just from how her eyes and eyebrows are set.
Endarei Steiner
2019-04-16 11:59:39 +0000 UTCMy parents’ house still has a light switch like that!
Endarei Steiner
2019-04-16 11:57:38 +0000 UTCVery cool documentary...
Matthew Goebel (skunkboy)
2019-04-15 23:53:36 +0000 UTCStarting the engine takes a lot of willpower...
Matthew Goebel (skunkboy)
2019-04-15 23:53:27 +0000 UTCIn regards to the notice about the Temperance movment, I was actually watching a Ken Burns documentary about Prohibition
Will Park
2019-04-14 18:37:39 +0000 UTCDazling.
Art Of Webcomics !
2019-04-14 11:05:54 +0000 UTCNoticed you posted this to your site, which was a welcome reminder to take another gander at your art. It strikes me now that the first big panel of the porch would make a most excellent melancholy wallpaper. Just sayin'...
AlpineBob
2019-04-14 09:42:25 +0000 UTCExcellent page, Tracy.
SCD
2019-04-13 03:40:34 +0000 UTCThis page is beautiful! And that one panel of Ivy peeking over the top of her cards is SO cute.
Layla Lawlor
2019-04-13 02:36:46 +0000 UTCOne read for the dialogue, another to properly appreciate the art, a third slow one to take in the whole package and a fourth one for good measure. That's why these are always, without fail, well worth the wait. You're amazing Tracy =)
Casually_Competent
2019-04-11 20:19:45 +0000 UTCIt's like Christmas morning every time you deliver a new page. Absolutely wonderful :)
Brormorc
2019-04-11 14:05:53 +0000 UTCi love the new page
Gypseytails
2019-04-11 11:00:01 +0000 UTCyes darlin yes, well worth the wait!
GoobyGnarp
2019-04-11 05:44:13 +0000 UTCLovely as always, from the languid pose of the semaphore beauty - the delicate pink in her ears is like a dawn - to the fixed ahead stare of our back-up driver. One of my favorite bits is just the lantern in the background as he hands her the gun, and the lighting effects in those panels. But I could gush over every panel, one way or another, so I'll just conclude with the final words we hear: "Start the engine first." So matter-of-fact. So amusing (to me). So wise.
AlpineBob
2019-04-11 05:36:36 +0000 UTC
