It’s shit on Harvest day, I guess. I actually skipped one more, couldn’t decide if it was offensive or not. Odd, because I kept the one about Harvest punching his girlfriend in the face. That, however is simply about these two people. It doesn’t condone abuse.
The ones I’ve skipped have all condemned homosexuality. I don’t think there was actual hate so much as a vocabulary defined by homophobia, as children of the 90’s were subjected to– constantly– and for reasons that never seemed to make any sense at all.
I don’t remember Ryan’s challenge and I definitely didn’t do the novella. I one hundred percent could crank one of those out these days, even if I only have 10% of the free time I did back then. What stopped me? Surely I could have dropped some genius work. Also this is the only mention of one of the three domains Flatliner lived on before being resurrected here at RIS.
At one point Flatliner simultaneously existed on Gold-Team.net and Rated-Arr.net (My domains are always deep cut inside jokes or lame non-jokes.) I had some idea to do a story that branched off and had two completely directions, then reconnect with the same ending. I was never going to mention it, just put it up differently on each site. I got overly ambitious and it became the weird, meandering space arc of The Cancelled Years and there was no split path.
Anyway, meet Gina. She came into our lives at approximately this point in time and had a profound impact. She probably only came in second to Zelda on number of guest comics throughout Flatliner’s run. Impressive considering she started a year and a half behind everyone.
