We Need To Schedule More Events Where Somebody Gives Me a Really Big Fish

I've complained recently about a lot of the pages being hard. This one, blissfully, wasn't.

I'm finally hitting the stride of pages where I know exactly what's going to happen, and the meat of the story. Well, I say "exactly" but then I realized that I had to add a page after the next one to resolve a dangling plot thread from ten pages before. Damn my tight plotting!

I'm posting panel five, which is my favorite of the sequence. The cadence of these panels is different, as neither ends with a joke so much as a "What?" beat, so I like being able to slide jokes into the body of the strip, like this one.

Incidentally, I had to design a new kitchen set for this scene. I think it turned out really well. Given the well-off-ness of Abby's parents, I tried to design a nicer, more upscale kitchen than the Spencer family kitchen. I did my online research (man, I love me teh internets) and put it some nicer brushed metal applicances among other things.

Almost halfway done now!