Comic for Monday, Oct 12, 2026

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Posted October 12, 2026 at 1:43 am

There was a Sunday sketchbook! Next sketchbook schemed for Halloween.

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Actual comic commentary!

- What happened with Jay (start of Pandora's flashback)

- What happened with Jay (Hope recalling the flashback and mostly summing it all up on one page). From Part 12 of Hope.

- The additional consequence of Jay being in a coma

- Panel 3, along with the explanation about the descriptions being what Jay thinks.

For anyone wondering why it took until this page for Jay to apologize, it's because Jay can read a room. She's doesn't always ACT on being able to read a room, but she did this time, and that meant not interrupting Diane and Hope finally getting their feelings out there. It took some sort of catalyst for them to do it, and Jay's confusion turning out to be that catalyst. She let them make the most of her panicked conclusion jump.

Many characters!

I wanted to actually show people, talking or not, after the many panels of the world around Diane and Hope being ignored. This meant that, even with the reused image, this page took me a bit.

I also wanted Hope's confused face, though it's a little different from what I wanted. I think it's funnier if she's not looking at anyone, but when I tried to do that, it instead looked as though Jay were her focus. For clarity, I shifted her gaze to Diane.

I don't think what Diane said was that confusing, but I can imagine hearing that and having a "sorry, could you repeat that?" moment due to the sudden density of it.

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