Meanwhile:

★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 11 - Me & Jack ★



✓ Wow, that’s it! Five comics—done and read. It’s like “LVA @ PVD – I” was ages ago. It does feel like a long time ago, doesn’t it? And I mean technically, if I calculated correctly, you’ve just read about 20-25% of Bitty’s junior year in a week and a half. There was Parse and an NHL game and Bitty going through a rough patch and Jack and Bitty yelling and brunch. That’s like Bitty’s October to his November, all crammed in there. That’s ~40 comic pages or two standard floppies! That’s a good chunk of Check, Please!





✓ You could have used this whole update to talk about Jack and Bitty’s relationship—or to show the team’s reactions—or to even delve deeper into Bitty’s psyche. But YOU CHOSE BRUNCH. *kicks a pebble* shucks…just wanted to write some goofs, I guess…





✓ Write jokes??? Is whatever is going on between Lardo and Shitty a joke??? Their faces say it all.





✓ But is that it? Jack and Bitty reveal their relationship and the team just squabbles about paying for brunch and moves on? Spoilers—the next episode is still at brunch. There’s a lot more serious, “thanks for trusting us guys!” conversation to be had. Because they’re teammates and friends and had all been wondering– “When will Jack and Bitty share they’re the reason for each other’s inexplicable happiness this semester?”





(✓ Hm, all right, so there’s more… which I mean…this entire comic is technically in progress…(one of the pitfalls of publishing episodically and not all at once.) Sorry about that!)





✓ But when did everyone find out??? More spoilers! You’d be correct in assuming that one by one (between comics 3.4 and 3.11) these hockey people started to recognize their friends’ affection toward one another…and let Jack and Bitty come to them on their own terms. Because as much as they chirp each other, they have each other’s backs.



But in the end, most importantly, after everything gets sorted out and the team offers its support and love, Jack and Bitty will be heavily fined according to the Samwell Hockey Bylaws.





✓ Maybe Holster and Lardo need to check themselves before they wreck themselves because if they were really Ransom’s FRIENDS they would have INVITED him to brunch at least ONCE over the last three years. This isn’t RANSOM’S FAULT AND THE BULLYING NEEDS TO STOP. That’s what I’m saying! With friend’s like these…!





✓ How do Ransom and Holster get Into and Out of the Attic? There short answer is that there are stairs; the also short answer is that the Haus makes no architectural sense.





✓ Every single member of the Samwell hockey team was in these last few updates! I mean other than Ollie and Wicks, of course. Even Kent Parson showed up for the show. Wowzas! Dex is still around and grumpy and fixing the Haus dryer.





✓ Also—did Jerry’s get redesigned? Oh my goodness, yes. It was so gaudy.





✓ Bitty can finally talk to people about Jack. Bitty can also talk about the Falconers. And dating. And not being single. And his boyfriend. And not being single dating his boyfriend Jack Zimmermann of the Providence Falconers.

A Text Conversation Holster: Ransom.

Ransom: sup

Holster: Bitty has spent the last HOUR talking about the first time he went shopping for jeans with Jack.

Ransom: ok

Holster: He keeps telling me how they couldn’t find “A SINGLE THING” for Jack’s “SHAPE.”

Ransom: lol

Holster: He just keeps REPEATING that part and laughing and starting the story over???

Holster: AND OVER.

Ransom: say u have to go to the lib

Holster: BUT THERE’S PIE HERE





☆ Up Next: Jack goes for a run.





☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆

☆ And that’s IT. YOU JUST SURVIVED A BITTY BOMB. But alas—that does mean that there will be no comic updates until December. If I could post the next three comics tomorrow, I would. But I cannot since I have to physically maneuver a Wacom pen stylus 1000s of times, conjuring a comic into existence.





☆ What’s next? …Well, nothing for now! The Kickstarter is still kicking. I’m just going to thank you all again for reading this comic and sharing it with friends and being generally good and kind. Thank you. If you thought this semester was a doozy—hold on to your hockey shorts. There’s so much more to come.