May be a new addition to the cast page. :P
So someone that works across the room from me decided to pick of the skill of tablettry to help her future husband do pro-coloring and get comics out faster. I drew her while she was working.
She promptly colored it in retaliation.
Which is really not bad at all for her first ever attempt on the tablet. Can’t wait to exploit this to my advantage.
Did I say exploit?
I meant *nurture*
UPDATE 7-16-2019: Guys, profusely apologize for being so behind. Still working on multiple comics at once but we have a grueling schedule of stuff to do the next 2 weeks and I’m running out of time for it. I have to leave to go pick up my kids in TN from their mom’s, which is 15 hours away. Have to get the rental car, get them, spend a day or 2 there, drive back 15 hours, then show the kids their new digs for the first time. Show them the property and meet Claire’s family that lives here. Gotta spend time with my family in TN cause this will be the first time we’re not doing upcoming holidays there, then do the all the important ‘new family’ stuff here in Texas.
After that, I have to get Jackson with a new specialist here for his asthma, and go to all their school to get them enrolled and get their shots caught up before school starts at the beginning of August, etc etc CRUNCH TIME. Claire has one starting Kindergarten, and I have two new to the system in this state. Again, sorry, it’s so much to do at once, but it won’t go on forever. Bare with me. I’m shooting for the 24th to get the next installments up.
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“Dad likes red heads” lol
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So, CiCi seems to be carrying a smaller card catalog than Le Cart, but similar, on the new case page section. Is he a grandfather? Is she his apprentice?
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*GiGi
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Further speculation, as I’ve had time to think on this. Ashliii showed signs of jealousy when Pumpkin was with “other” girls. Then, when last we saw her and Pumpkin together, it looked like they were about to have a talk. And now, Pumpkin is referring to her as “dearest”, if a bit flatly. Is it possible that their relationship has had an… upgrade? A shift? Even if it’s an in-joke about Pumpkin being into girls.
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I just assumed it was sarcasm
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I don’t know about a card catalog, but maybe a combat hairdresser?
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Classic Kyle.
And who doesn’t like redheads?
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I’m going to have to go with “the sun” as the answer to your question (though I suppose I have to anthropomorphize it more than I tend to if I want to fit your phrasing).
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Burn.
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Hi, I’m Kyle. I briefly dated your older sister until her massive negligence almost suffocated me in her apartment. If you see her before I do–and if there’s any justice in the world I’ll never see her again–please say hi for me and that Kyle says that, if she were dying of intestinal cancer in a part of the world in which morphine is as yet undiscovered, he would not be particularly sad about it. Thanks.
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It is a Party full of Randoms. What could go go wrong.
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With enough Kings of Amber, the Courts of Chaos are sure to attack.
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I’m sure Ellie will Come Through with her Trumps. There’s bound to be a Pattern to all this.
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Crap forgot the creds
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Well hells. It seems we have other Shadow-walkers here reading this comic. If anyone is interested, I’m currently playing in a game that’s released via podcast. You can listen to Throne of Amber here: https://simulacrastudios.podbean.com/
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I wish I had something clever and Amber related to this. Although I will say if you have Random you need a drum kit.
I’ll see myself out.
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That’s a heck of an addition to the cast page.
Sooo…is Dheu the dad who likes redheads? I mean, it wouldn’t be completely out there, and would allow for more quality time between him & GiGi (every day is take your daughter to work day if you work together!)
Also, Kyle appears to have used some Minecraft themed wrapping paper, so unless there’s been a sudden & violent change in Pumpkin’s opinion of the game, he did good (at least aesthetically)
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I seem to remember the team character vs comics had mentioned that Dheu was Ashliii’s father (pic is under comic The Chain Part XV, current post date April 6, 2015; but I don’t recall where talk about how the characters were connected was).
I quite enjoyed the new cast page as well (especially the new character outlines there), though a part of me is sad to learn that Tiny Atlas has an actual name, though I find the backstory amusing. Also I now want to see her eat her piece of birthday cake (I assume she cuts it over her head and drops the pieces in her mouth).
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I’m really curious what he got her. What do you get in that size, last minute for a sixteen year old girl you’ve never met before.
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I’m thinking it’s nothing more than Tarra using Kyle as her errand boy for the time being, with a promise of “do this and you’ll be rewarded”. The present is most likely actually from Tarra.
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I was thinking from Tarra’s apartment, but from him and not Tarra. Like if he befriended one of her worker bots and this is how he’s honoring his promise to help it escape.
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So in this scenario of your’s he helped the robot escape Tarra by bringing it to her parent’s house?
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Lot of places to hide there. Plus I have to wonder if Kyle is showing up because Tarra is showing up.
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So GiGi seems to be GG (from D52) daughter.
How many of the assassins were redheads?
Was the dad at LoveCon?
Is Ashliii a natural blonde?
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When we try to figure out one of The Rusche’s family trees.
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I believe GG and GiGi are one in the same character. No reason why a kid can’t be part of the 52.
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Or she’s actually much older than she looks. Since she’s just a half-sister, there’d be no way Ashliii would know for sure unless they’re very close, which I doubt. If Gigi is indeed one of Dheu’s offspring, which has been vaguely hinted at (note “Terms and Conditions, Part 6”, Aug. 20, 2016, last panel, post-it note on upper right), then knowing what we’ve seen of Dheu, any number of meta-physical things could be possible, especially if she’s his with one of the mage-squad Sexy Assassin Girl’s daughters.
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[Can’t edit, so I’ll add:] It’s entirely possible Gigi may be able to change her appearance, especially if she is indeed Dheu’s daughter (and if that’s true, Dheu must be able to do so as well–a woman would have to be kinkier than Cinnamon to want to “do Dheu” in the form in which we’ve seen him!). Unless Chris’s style has changed, she looks much more human in the above comic, IMHO, than she has in her previous appearances, where she looked almost alien, with larger-than-normal eyes, a much flatter nose, and a long slit for a mouth. Ellie even called her “Strange Girl” in “The Magnificent 7” (June 22,2017). If so, she theoretically could be hundreds of years old and still look like a teenager, and with her resources it wouldn’t be difficult to provide a false history and backstory.
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I think the nose/mouth thing is more a result of this being the first time we’re getting a good look at her from the side and staring at the camera all the time doing weird things to the perspective.
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Among the “Dad Likes Redheads” silhouettes, at the top left, there appears to be a hat similar to that which “Emoji Witch” is wearing in the top panel of “She Never Skips Ponytail Day” (Jan. 2, 2018). Since she’s a redhead, my Monopoly money’s on her being in that cast section. (Granted, Dheu himself wears a hat similar to that, but the rest of the silhouette holding the hat doesn’t seem like it would be him to me.) We also see a couple apparently female figures holding pistols, so I’m betting there’s more than one other Sexy Assassin Girl on there, too.
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Does the color of the silhouettes on the “dad likes redheads” indicate full sisterhood instead of half sisterhood?
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With some of those shapes it may be possible that same colors are same individual. They do seem a bit irregular.
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I think the shading is nothing more than showing enough contrast to differentiate the silhouettes. I wouldn’t count on the entirety of the new cast panel being the “Dad Likes Redheads” theme; the caption is way off to the far left, so that may just pertain to that particular sub-group of individuals. Note the sister cast panel above it, where each sister has her own caption. The new cast panel could be set up in a similar manner.
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I’m going to enjoy meeting each and every one of ‘Dad Loves Redheads’ little hellions. The man sure get’s around.
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Hmmm, the “lots of random people invited” might make it easier for Tarra to convince herself that Blind Guy isn’t attending as Ellie’s date or just make for confusion/hijinks as it’s realized.
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I have trouble thinking David would knowingly attend Pumpkin’s party, for reasons:
•He knows Tarra is Ellie’s and Pumpkin’s sister, is deliberately keeping that fact from Ellie (“The Wedge”: http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/the-wedge/ ) , and it’s apparent he really doesn’t care to cross paths with Tarra (although that would make me wonder why he’d want to get into a relationship with Tarra’s sister in the first place); so he should know it would be a VERY volatile situation to show up there, especially as Ellie’s date, with the strong possibility of Tarra also being there, obsessed as she is with David. That’s just a powderkeg waiting for a match…
•I would think that as a teacher, he’d know it would cramp Pumpkin’s style for any teacher to show up at a party for a student, particularly since Pumpkin didn’t really seem to care for him any more than any of her other teachers.
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Well, good news? for him. After Tarra got curb stomped yesterday, (Yes, yesterday, and Lovefest was the night before that. We are moving at Dumbing Of Age speeds, here.) she miiiiight not be in any shape to attend.
So, yeah.
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I’d been going by the comment of the Royal Buckinghams picture being described as Pumpkin’s birthday party to assume that all the people pictured would be attending.
Granted, it’s now obvious that it’s not all the people attending, so possibly it wasn’t intended that way. That’s where I was getting Blind Guy showing up here.
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The comment I remember about that “Royal Buckinghams” pic is that cousin Cami (Camomile) was scheduled to be officially introduced to us at this party. She had to be explained beforehand for that picture and her appearances on Chris’s deviantArt page.
Comment section quote from Chris Rusche, Oct. 17, 2014 (“DKPFX”, same day):
“That’s their cousin, Cami (Camomile.) Chapter 5 starts with Pumpkin’s 16th birthday, so the sisters rejoin to designate/vote on Pumpkin as “The _____ One” and hopefully never spend forced-time with each other again. As a homage to TRT movie, Cami is the one who really really wants to be part of the immediate family.”
Bear in mind that comment was made 4-1/2 years ago, and obviously Chris reserves the right to change his mind.
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I approve of the shirt. For reasons.
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I’d like to hear the whole album for Saints from Hell. LOL
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I like to picture Panthro from Thunder Cats wailing on drums, and Tigra laying down some sick guitar riffs, chetara on bass, willy kit and kat, on keyboards, and Lion-O roaring out vocals. (although mumra on vocals could be fuckin killer..) basically the thundercats formed Pantera in my head cannon.
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From the 2011 designs, but I think you’ll appreciate the artists’ work!
https://www.deviantart.com/reaperclamp/art/ThunderCats-Band-473732166
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Mmmkay. Well, I stand corrected on the Gigi thing.
There’s a few redheads in this group picture (“Assassin Girls Inc.,” http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/assassin-girls-inc/ ). Wouldn’t surprise me if some were to appear in the new cast section. I at first thought that the hat in the upper left-hand corner was Dheu’s, but it could just as easily belong to “Emoji Witch”, for that matter: http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/she-never-skips-ponytail-day/
Gonna be interesting to see how this cast page fills out, and who knows/is related to whom. ;-)
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Is Ashliii’s sister in the 52? Maybe that’s her mom? I have so many questions!
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Hey, Kyle Survived and (maybe, probably, I don’t know) stuck with Tarra.
Good on him, Though he might not survive the chaos to come.
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Well, I mean, he brought a present. He’s being polite. Pumpkin needs to chill out. He might not even be a rando invited by her mom. He might have been invited by Tarra.
Kyle has that weird unique vibe of super expendable and yet totally invulnerable. I predict he will survive to the end of the comic despite having no special powers or skills.
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So he’s basically Henchman 21.
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Or Bob from HYDRA, he has a similar vibe.
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Henchman 21:
Listen dude, don’t get cozy with us. You’re the guy who doesn’t come back.
Henchman 24:
Yeah, some guy who just shows up that nobody’s ever seen before!
Henchman 21:
And he’s all professional- Yeah, dude, you’re a goner.
Henchman 24:
(putting his arm around Henchman #1’s shoulders) Let me tell you a story about a little henchman named Speedy (or Kyle, in this case) …
Venture Brothers ftw
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So, one of Mr. Night’s minions just waltzes into the family home of Taragon. Should be fun!
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Well I’m calling it now but a lot of people we have seen before who were all trying to kill each other will be at this party.
The only thing that will stop them all from having a battle royal is the death stare that the mom will have. Summer the Serious could call for the Brobdingnagian God Revolver and one look from the mom and it will return itself back to the astral plane that it came from. Why you ask, because nothing is going to ruin Pumpkin sweet 16 party
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Ideally (for him) Kyle will be that one guy on the back alternatively munching on popcorn and recording everything to youtube. Anything else and he’s either a trigger or a blast shield.
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Kyle is ………well its Kyle
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One for the “Make Of It What You Will” department…
While doing yet another archive crawl, I can’t help but notice how the hairstyles and hair color are very similar between Ashliii and Loose Cannon, of all people. Could just be coincidence, or Chris toying with us, but the similarity is there. I’m reeeeeally not seeing Loose Cannon as a mom type, but that doesn’t rule out some other kind of nutcase relative (aunt or cousin).
Still, I wouldn’t be the least surprised if she shows up in the new cast section.
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While I wouldn’t call Loose Cannon “the mom type” she is conceivably the “passed out for 9+ months” type so might not realize it.
However, I can’t see Ashliii as her daughter anyway, because I can’t believe any child delivered from Loose Cannon not being hideously brain damaged. I suppose that still leaves egg donor as a possibility, though.
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Or, as I’d speculated, crazy aunt/cousin. Or even an older half-sister Ashliii may not know about… yet; but this time, same mom/different dads.
I’m picking out a silhouette that looks like Loose Cannon’s trademark four-paneled super-cannon thingy in the lower right-hand corner of the new cast section, adding fuel to my idea that she’s on that panel somewhere.
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It would be a minor medical miracle if Baby Cannon didn’t have three heads and tentacles.
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I can see Loose Cannon being married now, even though she’s crazy. To a guy equally as crazy.
Named Head Cannon.
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Is that like Pyramid Head’s long range cousin?
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Dad likes redheads? He’s clearly got nice taste because so do I and its good to know he’s helped father more.
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Little sister reminds me of Loose Cannon. A lot. Mere coincidence?
I concur on the coloring job.
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I think we have seen Ashlii’s youngest sister before, at a party that Eagan was DJing.
Comic: Jul 19, 2013 “And then there was none”
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/and-then-there-was-none/
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Another appearance was in “Cinnavictims” (Oct. 4, 2013); holding a bucket of tickets at the “Chuck-E-Cheese” kind of place where Cinnamon cheats unsuspecting boys out of their ticket points while pretending to work.
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….
I would listen the shit out of Thunder Cats themed Metal.
Shit, one of my favorite bands is Transformers themed Rap.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P04EbzCKgE
I know it’s neither of the things you mentioned, but…
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According to the cast page “if she [Ashliii] could transplant her hand with a phone, she totally would.” She must be dumb because that is a really really bad idea!
Six months down the line a new model gets released but then she needs a new surgery to remove the old phone and transplant the new model. If she doesn’t she’s outdated within a couple years. She’s better off keeping it a bit less coupled to her other body parts.
I’m thinking a fair compromise would be to glue the phone to the palm of a glove which is then tied at her wrist with a blind knot. Come new model, cut the knot and buy a new glove.
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Girl needs a Pip-Boy.
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Chris, life comes first!
If you are rushing around and screw up yourself the comics will stop, so (at least for me) if you need to slow down and take care of none comic things, do so. Please just you or Claire keep us informed on a regular basis so we don’t panic and think you are dead.
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Chris, you and your family come first. You write and draw a good comic. Your true fans will be patient enough to understand what you’re going through right now, and we’ll still be here for you when your life is less hectic. Take care and God bless.
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This has proven to be an “off” summer for a lot of web strips. So, don’t feel out of place. Even Wapsi Square is down, due to similar stuff. Then there’s PvP, WereGeek, the newly returned Real Life, etc.
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Part of it is that several webcomic authors are in their 30’s to 50’s, and there’s so many people that have older loved ones and families that generate a lot of IRL type situations. You mentioned PvP. Scott Kurtz’s dad is suffering from senility so bad that he had to come live with Scott, which means Scott has his hands full. Everyone’s got something going on right now.
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Eugh, school in August. My state might be awful but at least they let us wait til September to go back to school. Like a civilized society.
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Wait, I finished the archives already? Awww. Amazing webcomic! Don’t overdo the workload!