This Romantic World Page 370 (Patreon)

I got a comment on Twitter on the last page from someone who said they were falling behind on the lore. I try to generally make TRW welcoming to to new readers on a page by page basis. But these last few pages admittedly lean pretty hard on prior knowledge of my older work. If you've never played the visual novel or read my previous comic, you haven't really been given any indication as to why Casey was bursting into tears and throwing herself at Vincent's personal demon in the last couple of pages here.

Case in point, panels three and four here are referring to the events of the visual novel. I thought about doing one of those little editorial dialogue boxes you see in superhero comics on this page. You know, the ones that pop up whenever Spiderman references something that you had to read Daredevil to know what the fuck he's talking about, and the writer devotes precious page space to let you know that this isn't obtuse writing, no no, the problem is you. Go buy more comics, sucker!

In the end I decided that would have only been funny to me. But what I am going to do is to be sure to explain and recap the visual novel stuff well enough as I go so that the story in the comic still makes sense on its own. Part of me does like the idea of readers finding things out along with Millie as she continues to dig.