What a wild week in Flatliner world this was at the very end of 2004. We get a new character in Rick’s cousin who was a real person that I had a massive crush on. At least it milks the pirate joke again. That is the one enduring legacy of Flatliner- its love for this awful joke.
Then we get a strip from Gina with a totally new art style! I love it. I wish I could work within that style, but I don’t have the skill and I wasn’t going to learn how to work with it. The Jason drawing is great and updates him to my look at the time, which is largely unchanged except closer to death now. That it takes place in a chain bar from our mall is appropriate but also sad. We don’t ever get to see her rendition of Harvest.
Tom returns for the first time in over a million strips. He did not like this strip due to real life accuracies we didn’t know about. I think I took it down at the time? Is it rude to post it again, now? No. I’ll pull strips with racist or homophobic humor, or ones that just weren’t good enough to go up then, let alone now but for a relationship that was so notoriously lopsided, bordering on abusive 20 years ago it passes all my checks. Maybe the shotgun is a little much. I think they’re still together and happy now.
Good thing nobody reads this site.
