Early access-'Nice to need you' pt5 (Patreon)

The end :D....just kidding

OK, little content warning. The next part has mentions of self harm. If that makes you feel uncomfortable, please feel free to skip it (I'll bold up the letters once I'm done talking about this :))

OK. So this episode has a bit of self censoring in it. In the original dialogue/script, when Jack asks Walter where he's going, Walter says something like 'Dunno, maybe finally buying the farm' (which is a basically a way of saying he wants to end it all.) To which Jack responses that he thinks farming is not a good idea since it's a lot of work. Portraying that the two characters don't really understand each other. Which is kinda a theme that resurfaces in the comic over and over again.

However, after thinking about this line I felt like it's probably not a good idea to keep it in. In the best case scenario it will come off as a cheap tearjerker, in the worst case scenario it will look insensitive and maybe even as downplaying mental illness and self harm. especially since there will be hints on what went down with Walter (and that 'murder woman' he mentioned earlier)...but his mental state will probably never be really addressed again. So dropping such a bomb onto the readers and then just forget about it....yeah, that's just not good. I'm simply not the person who should be telling a story like this.

So instead, while trying to keep the sincerity of the scene intact, I watered down the dialogue a bit. Portraying a feeling of being lost and no place to go. ...and Jack simply not hearing him (bringing back the miscommunication part I mentioned earlier)

And that's pretty much it 

What else can there be said about these pages. 

The last page was a lot of fun. I was kinda aiming for an 'anime cliffhanger' style illustration. Not sure if I nailed it tho. but close enough :)

Also, I really like the rather mushy dialogue between the two. I guess it does read a bit soap opera-ish. But...if you know what I know about these characters and their whole past and yada yada...you'd probably agree with me...or not. I've gotten the audience wrong so many times so I dunno XD

Hope you like it :)