Ships Ahoy, Season Two

Ships Ahoy, Season Two
Published	June 18, 2018 (2018-06-18)
Page count	10
Major characters	Paulo, David, Sue, Amaya, Lani Amalu, Abbey, Jasmine, Matt, Jordan, Augustus, Jessica, Madison, Molly
Locations	Burger-Tron
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Ships Ahoy, Season Two is a Bittersweet Club International-exclusive anthology of ten one-page vignettes, each built around a different pairing from the cast. They contradict one another by design: some are couples the comic actually has, some are couples it never will, and some are jokes about the idea of the pairing itself.

Pairings

Paulo’s idea of a grand romantic gesture is one good vocabulary word.

1. Amaya and Sue: a scary movie on the couch, with Sue supplying all of the commentary.
2. Paulo and Lani Amalu: Paulo tries a fancy new word out on his teacher.
3. Abbey and Jasmine: hours into a study session, only one of them wants a break.
4. David and Paulo: dinner at Burger-Tron, courtesy of Paulo’s employee discount.
5. Matt and Jordan: a game of basketball keep-away that Jordan refuses to lose.
6. David and Sue: Sue is stuck on a crossword clue.
7. Paulo and Amaya: one large popcorn at Amaya’s concession counter, eaten on the premises.
8. David and Augustus: David runs up behind Augustus and loudly calls out to him.
9. Jessica and Madison: an all-night wait in a ticket line.
10. Paulo and Molly: not a ship at all, just a Girl Scout with a very forceful sales technique.

Trivia & observations

• The Ships Ahoy strips were drawn for Weekly Roundup, the Bittersweet Candy Bowl newsletter, and first went out to subscribers between 2018 and 2021. They were later collected into seasons and remastered for the Bittersweet Club International Members’ Library.
• This season covers Ships Ahoy! #20 through #29, picking up the count right where Ships Ahoy, Season One left off. Later seasons carry the numbering onward, starting with Ships Ahoy, Season Three.
• Paulo appears in four of the season’s ten strips.
• Amaya does not speak in either of her strips.
• David calls Augustus “Final Fantasy Cat” here, months before using the same nickname for him in the main comic’s Witch Hunt. The phrase had already appeared as one of David’s exclamations in Onwards to Adventure.
• Despite the ship-caption format, the Paulo and Molly strip is a non-romantic Girl Scout cookie-sale gag. Molly had already put Abbey to work hauling a cookie cart in Invitation.
• The Paulo and Lani strip dresses Paulo’s one-word wooing in full shoujo romance staging, falling leaves and blurry bokeh background included.

Related chapters

• Small Fry: Paulo gets his Burger-Tron job in this chapter and insists that he deserves the employee discount. He uses the discount to take David to dinner in the anthology.
• Boy Toy: In this chapter, Paulo leans over Amaya’s concession counter and pleads while she watches silently behind the register. In the anthology strip, he lingers at Amaya’s counter after buying popcorn.
• Fair Game: Matt blushes around Jordan in the anthology strip. A few months later, he describes his feelings for Jordan as a “little high school crush” that is not going anywhere.