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One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in that scenario.
It took so long for Peregrine Lake to get off the ground. I first announced it back in December of 2019, and originally I was going to draw it. And then the world fell apart, and I found myself with zero ability to draw it anymore. I kept kicking the idea around, wanting to move it forward when in 2023 I jokingly suggested to my friend Ethan that they could draw the comic for me.
And they said yes, they'd love to, and I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
We then spent almost a year regularly meeting, talking about my plans for the plots, the world, the characters, and all the things that would have otherwise just lived in my head. I started scripting comics, and Ethan got to work on concept art. And for most of 2023 we planned and got ready, and we hit the ground running in 2024.
And now we're here. Honestly, I love everything we've put out over the last year. Ethan's art is incredible, and tells the story in a way that I'm not sure mine would have. I love this comic, I love that you all are reading it, and I'm excited to show you what's coming next.
Because we've only just scratched the surface on how weird this is going to get.
On April 26th I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Probably better punch Jim, too.
I’m actually kinda loving the unlikely alliance between Lynn and Garner. May they develop a better understanding of each through the punching and mutual dislike of Nazis.
What would Jim do anyways? Kick Lynn out of the con? Well probably but I think he knows that Lynn has done much to save the con from going extinct. Plus I think Lynn could have helped explain her case to Jim by saying the con goer was also breaking the law by violating a restraining order against 2 of the staffers. Of course could retort with the fact that hitting someone isn’t right either but Lynn also has other bullets in her chamber too. She also has the hate speech policy, and the fact she knows the con goer from Bork Con staff and knows he is flat out an asshole. So yea this whole thing is a mess that probaby would be best sorted out a week or two after the con.
Probably quietly angle things toward getting her out eventually, but that’s about it, unless she pushes it further. This appears to be how he does things as shown so far. Had a boss like him for a while.
He’s been reasonably good at that so far – it’s too bad that his motivations here are crap. Err – to to be clear his “Nazi crap isn’t that big a deal” motivations. His boss motivations are reasonable enough here, it’s his attitude toward the triggering incident that needs slapping.
Well, when the elections come around for the next year’s staff, I bet Lynn can persuade the staff to vote Jim out as the Con Director/Chairman. Although Lynn could also say “F**K It* and leave the staff and let them do their own thing.
I agree that it would be best for the con to wait a few weeks and have a serious discussion about this and what to do about it.
I mean Lynn does have a violent history at cons so this could be seen as her just punching another person. That isn’t a great look no matter how much the people punched deserve it.
Considering Jim seems to hate confrontation he would probably back off if more than one staffers back Lynn.
All of that is valid and I’m also someone would rather sort stuff until after everything is done. I think of the Convention being a like a forest fire, bare with me here, it’s a literally an event that requires all the staff and volunteer help and there is not need for the “firefighters” to be arguing with themselves over something they did yesterday. I mean if there is some proven incompetence on the staff, then by all means get rid of them, but this is more like two of the firefighters disagreed with the Chief’s instructions because it clearly went again the most ethical way of handling things and so they do it the way they think was the right way even though it went against the Fire Chief’s orders. Sure the Chief could chose to address the decisions these firefighters made, but that would be inappropriate of the time because right now there is still a fire put out, which hypothetically it’s the con. I know it’s not the best analogy but I was picturing this whole event as something to prioritize over a petty dispute that can be sorted out after the convention is over.
I like that Garner is showing that he may be an asshole, but he’s not *that* asshole.
Seriously? Keeping to a lie when the lie is unsupportable? Lynn’s best clue this was a bad course of action was when Garner backed her up.
My RW alignment is lawful-good. I would have told Jim everything and accepted responsibility. He seems very willing to work around people’s personal quirks, which may include a hot temper such as Lynn’s. But for that to work, trust has to run both ways and Lynn just showed it doesn’t. That’s a big deal.
Jim was wholly in the wrong though. They had an attendee violating their con’s stated policy in a way designed to make other people feel uncomfortable and threatened. Jim actively ordered Lynn to overlook that. Right there he proved he’s clearly incompetent at handling this situation.
Lynn and Garner handled it, on their own, and are now just making sure Jim doesn’t have another opportunity to make terrible decisions around this issue.
As Lynn said, “When you see a Nazi, punch a Nazi.”
Otherwise, you get this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/27/pittsburgh-police-report-active-shooter-near-synagogue/1788556002/
So keep punching Nazis. Pittsburgh will love you for it.