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| major_characters = | | major_characters = [[Sue]], [[Alec McCain]], [[Katie]], [[Lucy]] | ||
| minor_characters = | | minor_characters = [[Stacy]], [[Three Weird Girls]], [[David]], [[John]], [[Lily]], [[Yashy]], [[Daisy]], [[Tess]], [[Abbey]], [[Augustus]] | ||
| locations = | | locations = [[Roseville High School]] | ||
| collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume One|Volume One]], [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Omnibus 1|Omnibus 1]] | | collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume One|Volume One]], [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Omnibus 1|Omnibus 1]] | ||
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Within a single meeting, [[Sue]]'s support group for the comic's forgotten background characters produces an angry mob, some very unwelcome sparkles, and a seat for her at [[Lucy]]'s lunch table. Not bad for what she herself admits was a bad idea. | |||
== Synopsis == | |||
[[Sue]] bangs a gavel and declares open "the first meeting of Roseville High's Neglected Club!", a support group for characters who tend to stay in the background or get forgotten entirely, with [[Katie]], [[Stacy]], [[John]] and the [[Three Weird Girls]] filling out the attendance.<ref name=":c36.1p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36.1/p1}}</ref> | |||
[[Alec McCain|McCain]] doesn't see the point of a club formed to protest a more popular group, and suggests the members simply try asking that group instead, only to be jeered back into his seat.<ref name=":c36.1p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36.1/p2}}</ref> The panel's focus then refuses to leave the deflated McCain, and Sue seizes on it as a teaching moment for a club that embraces the spotlight, treating him to confetti and cheers that leave him blushing at the table. Katie decides the whole thing is stupid after all, and she and Stacy grin their way to a better plan: an angry mob.<ref name=":c36.1p2" /> | |||
[[File:c36.1_p2_panel13.png|alt=McCain stands stiffly at the center of the panel as confetti explodes around him and everyone shouts "SPOTLIGHT!!".|thumb|McCain gets his moment in the spotlight, like it or not.]] | |||
The mob marches out over Sue's protests.<ref name=":c36.1p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36.1/p3}}</ref> Left behind, Sue admits the club was a bad idea born of her own jealousy, and mid-vent she calls McCain "Alec". He realizes she's just used his first name, and both of them freeze up blushing amid sparkles before a flustered Sue excuses herself.<ref name=":c36.1p3" /> | |||
Meanwhile, the mob swarms [[Lucy]] outside, everyone demanding her friendship at once.<ref name=":c36.1p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36.1/p4}}</ref> Sue catches up and confesses everything, from her jealousy of Lucy's lunchtime group to the club spiraling out of hand. Lucy can't believe that was ever a problem, since nobody cares if Sue wants to sit at their table. Thrilled, Sue abandons her clubmates on the spot, and the final panel has her sipping a juice box at the lunch table while the word "DRAMA" fills every inch of air around her.<ref name=":c36.1p4" /> | |||
== Character dynamics == | |||
* '''Sue and Alec McCain:''' The two barely know each other going in. McCain debuted only four chapters earlier as the group's resident deadpan pedant, the one everyone tells to shut up.<ref name=":c32p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p1}}</ref> Sue is the one person at the meeting who defends his right to be heard, and when she absentmindedly calls him "Alec", the pair of them dissolve into mutual blushing.<ref name=":c36.1p3" /> It's the first on-panel use of his first name, and it becomes Sue's habit alone from here on. Veronica's commentary confirms she remains the only person who calls him that.<ref name=":c36.1p3" /><ref name=":c42p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c42/p3}}</ref> | |||
* '''Sue and Lucy:''' Sue has been quietly jealous of Lucy's lunchtime crowd, enough to found an entire club about it. One panting apology later, Lucy waves the whole crisis off and tells her nobody cares if she wants to sit with them.<ref name=":c36.1p4" /> Sue had hovered near the group before, but this chapter is the story of how she became a fixture of their table.<ref name=":c36.1p4" /><ref name=":c37p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c37/p1}}</ref> | |||
* '''Sue and the Neglected Club:''' The club was only ever a vehicle for Sue's own grievance, and its members find that out the hard way. Her leadership lasts about half a meeting before Katie's mob takes over, and once Lucy gives her what she actually wanted, she drops her clubmates without a second thought.<ref name=":c36.1p4" /> | |||
== Trivia & observations == | |||
* Fourth-wall gags are the engine of the whole chapter. Characters treat panel focus, series-regular status and "the spotlight" as everyday school concepts, and the camera itself misbehaves twice, first refusing to leave McCain and later wandering off after Lily.<ref name=":c36.1p2" /><ref name=":c36.1p3" /> | |||
* The current version is a substantial remaster. Veronica's commentary explains that the original chapter highlighted fan characters from her DeviantArt days, and the redraw replaced them with Katie, Stacy and the Three Weird Girls. She kept the chapter for the Sue and McCain development, and reckoned the original was "a little more mean-spirited" than she cared to preserve.<ref name=":c36.1p1" /> The 2007 publication date belongs to that original version. | |||
* Aqua, the tearful cat who delivers a single line on page 2, never turns up in the main comic again.<ref name=":c36.1p2" /> Veronica has confirmed on Tumblr that she's a mock version of Lucy from an old, never-published anime-style side comic, and Oliver's advice on the matter was simply "don't read it".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/134090121705/the-character-in-panel-five-is-meant-to-be-a-mock|title=Confirming Aqua was originally an altered Lucy|date=2015-11-28}}</ref> | |||
* Stacy's "Shut it, McCain!" continues a gag that began on McCain's very first page in [[Follow Me]].<ref name=":c36.1p2" /><ref name=":c32p1" /> That said, Veronica's commentary notes the remaster plays her line as genuine annoyance, since the running gag wasn't yet established at this point in the timeline.<ref name=":c36.1p2" /> | |||
* Yashy's out-of-nowhere observation that Lucy's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard quotes Kelis's 2003 song "Milkshake".<ref name=":c36.1p4" /> | |||
== Related chapters == | |||
* '''[[Follow Me]]''': McCain made his debut in this chapter, and the "Shut it, McCain" gag started on his very first page there. It's also where the lunch-table drama Sue envies gets properly underway, with Augustus isolating Daisy and threatening Tess. | |||
* '''[[Show and Tell]]''': The "insecure Khao Manees or oblivious Korats" Sue promises won't steal anyone's spotlight are Lucy and [[Mike]], who claimed those breeds for themselves in this early chapter.<ref name=":c9p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c9/p2}}</ref><ref name=":c9p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c9/p3}}</ref> | |||
* '''[[A Different Side]]''': The following chapter picks up with Sue already embedded in the group at lunch, gym and the pep rally, and [[Paulo]] carries the "Shut it, McCain" gag forward. | |||
* '''[[Feline Filibuster]]''': After Sue loses the student council election, McCain is the one who sits with her, hand on her shoulder, and she answers him with an affectionate "Sh.. Shut it, McCain". | |||
* '''[[Rising Temperature]]''': Katie's "loser among the losers, hon" edge is a warm-up for this chapter, where she picks Daisy apart over her looks while Abbey watches. | |||
== References == | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
{{BCB chapters}} | |||
[[Category:Chapters]] | |||
[[Category:Volume One]] | |||
[[Category:Omnibus 1]] | |||
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| Out of the Frame | |
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| Chapter | "36.1" of 127 (list of chapters) |
| Published | May 14, 2007 |
| Page count | 4 |
| Major characters | Sue, Alec McCain, Katie, Lucy |
| Minor characters | Stacy, Three Weird Girls, David, John, Lily, Yashy, Daisy, Tess, Abbey, Augustus |
| Locations | Roseville High School |
| Collected in | Volume One, Omnibus 1 |
| Chapter navigation | |
| ← Crash and Burn | A Different Side → |
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Within a single meeting, Sue's support group for the comic's forgotten background characters produces an angry mob, some very unwelcome sparkles, and a seat for her at Lucy's lunch table. Not bad for what she herself admits was a bad idea.
Synopsis
Sue bangs a gavel and declares open "the first meeting of Roseville High's Neglected Club!", a support group for characters who tend to stay in the background or get forgotten entirely, with Katie, Stacy, John and the Three Weird Girls filling out the attendance.[1]
McCain doesn't see the point of a club formed to protest a more popular group, and suggests the members simply try asking that group instead, only to be jeered back into his seat.[2] The panel's focus then refuses to leave the deflated McCain, and Sue seizes on it as a teaching moment for a club that embraces the spotlight, treating him to confetti and cheers that leave him blushing at the table. Katie decides the whole thing is stupid after all, and she and Stacy grin their way to a better plan: an angry mob.[2]
The mob marches out over Sue's protests.[3] Left behind, Sue admits the club was a bad idea born of her own jealousy, and mid-vent she calls McCain "Alec". He realizes she's just used his first name, and both of them freeze up blushing amid sparkles before a flustered Sue excuses herself.[3]
Meanwhile, the mob swarms Lucy outside, everyone demanding her friendship at once.[4] Sue catches up and confesses everything, from her jealousy of Lucy's lunchtime group to the club spiraling out of hand. Lucy can't believe that was ever a problem, since nobody cares if Sue wants to sit at their table. Thrilled, Sue abandons her clubmates on the spot, and the final panel has her sipping a juice box at the lunch table while the word "DRAMA" fills every inch of air around her.[4]
Character dynamics
- Sue and Alec McCain: The two barely know each other going in. McCain debuted only four chapters earlier as the group's resident deadpan pedant, the one everyone tells to shut up.[5] Sue is the one person at the meeting who defends his right to be heard, and when she absentmindedly calls him "Alec", the pair of them dissolve into mutual blushing.[3] It's the first on-panel use of his first name, and it becomes Sue's habit alone from here on. Veronica's commentary confirms she remains the only person who calls him that.[3][6]
- Sue and Lucy: Sue has been quietly jealous of Lucy's lunchtime crowd, enough to found an entire club about it. One panting apology later, Lucy waves the whole crisis off and tells her nobody cares if she wants to sit with them.[4] Sue had hovered near the group before, but this chapter is the story of how she became a fixture of their table.[4][7]
- Sue and the Neglected Club: The club was only ever a vehicle for Sue's own grievance, and its members find that out the hard way. Her leadership lasts about half a meeting before Katie's mob takes over, and once Lucy gives her what she actually wanted, she drops her clubmates without a second thought.[4]
Trivia & observations
- Fourth-wall gags are the engine of the whole chapter. Characters treat panel focus, series-regular status and "the spotlight" as everyday school concepts, and the camera itself misbehaves twice, first refusing to leave McCain and later wandering off after Lily.[2][3]
- The current version is a substantial remaster. Veronica's commentary explains that the original chapter highlighted fan characters from her DeviantArt days, and the redraw replaced them with Katie, Stacy and the Three Weird Girls. She kept the chapter for the Sue and McCain development, and reckoned the original was "a little more mean-spirited" than she cared to preserve.[1] The 2007 publication date belongs to that original version.
- Aqua, the tearful cat who delivers a single line on page 2, never turns up in the main comic again.[2] Veronica has confirmed on Tumblr that she's a mock version of Lucy from an old, never-published anime-style side comic, and Oliver's advice on the matter was simply "don't read it".[8]
- Stacy's "Shut it, McCain!" continues a gag that began on McCain's very first page in Follow Me.[2][5] That said, Veronica's commentary notes the remaster plays her line as genuine annoyance, since the running gag wasn't yet established at this point in the timeline.[2]
- Yashy's out-of-nowhere observation that Lucy's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard quotes Kelis's 2003 song "Milkshake".[4]
Related chapters
- Follow Me: McCain made his debut in this chapter, and the "Shut it, McCain" gag started on his very first page there. It's also where the lunch-table drama Sue envies gets properly underway, with Augustus isolating Daisy and threatening Tess.
- Show and Tell: The "insecure Khao Manees or oblivious Korats" Sue promises won't steal anyone's spotlight are Lucy and Mike, who claimed those breeds for themselves in this early chapter.[9][10]
- A Different Side: The following chapter picks up with Sue already embedded in the group at lunch, gym and the pep rally, and Paulo carries the "Shut it, McCain" gag forward.
- Feline Filibuster: After Sue loses the student council election, McCain is the one who sits with her, hand on her shoulder, and she answers him with an affectionate "Sh.. Shut it, McCain".
- Rising Temperature: Katie's "loser among the losers, hon" edge is a warm-up for this chapter, where she picks Daisy apart over her looks while Abbey watches.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Out of the Frame, page 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Out of the Frame, page 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Out of the Frame, page 3
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Out of the Frame, page 4
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 1
- ↑ Chapter 42: Arrival, page 3
- ↑ Chapter 37: A Different Side, page 1
- ↑ "Confirming Aqua was originally an altered Lucy". 2015-11-28.
- ↑ Chapter 9: Show and Tell, page 2
- ↑ Chapter 9: Show and Tell, page 3