Krystle’s Kakes and Pies

Last night’s teaser on April’s Real Blog was when I posted as Jeremy Jones and had him tell a story where Marjee Mahaha says she had an intimate relationship with Howard at one point. The tricky part was that you don’t know if she is just saying that to antagonize her boyfriend Maynard and nothing really happened, or it did happen but it was a one-time only thing, or it was an extended relationship. aprilp_katje, who posts as Marjee Mahaha went for the one-night stand option and had a nice story to go along with it. Howard has been with so many women now (Rhetta Blum, Kortney Krelbutz, Beatrice Alfarero, Marjee Mahaha); I may have to find him a boyfriend, so he can maintain his reputation as a homosexualist.

I had planned to leave Jeremy Jones alone after that, but the_berserker who posts as Duncan, mentioned Duncan beating up Jeremy, so it was too tempting to resist doing a little posting fight between Duncan and Jeremy. That was fun. In the strip, Jeremy is constantly trying to antagonize the people around him, so it was interesting to play off that with Duncan.

The comic strip For Better or For Worse appears to be adapting the material in the Mtigwaki section of the FBOFW website now. The pictures of the pow-wow are lifted directly from the pictures shown there. I was researching Ojibway history in order to understand what some of the stuff was that she was showing in the strip and found that Lynn’s source may not be the most knowledgeable person on Ojibway customs. There are dozens of websites on the subject, many of whom cover the culture more thoroughly than Lynn’s source. So it was fun to have Howard contrast the Lynn source with information coming from my other sources.

Lastly, Howard begins work at Krystle’s Kakes and Pies with Becky’s mother Krystle, while still keeping his required work at Grandpa Jim’s. This allows him to snark from the Elly and the Jim perspective, depending on where the FBOFW strip goes. It also will allow an interesting dynamic to develop with both Howard and Becky protecting each other from Becky’s mom, for different reasons of course.