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Jackson Ferrell’s “Amber cannot seriously believe this guy”
on August 31, 2013 at 12:35 amPosted In: Blog
More appropriately-timed fan art! This one‘s by Jackson Ferrell, who does the webcomic Sketch Comedy. Man, as an aside, Amazi-Girl’s hair is so much harder to draw than Amber’s. Jackson seems to have nailed it here, though.
I realized there’s been a lull between Freshman Family Weekend character models, so let’s dip back into the fan art well for a bit, shall we? AND C’MON, HOW CAN I NOT RUN THIS NOW??? It’s Amber/Amazi-Girl by TerribleNerd, and it’s like the best thing I’ve ever seen. I probably said that same thing about her Sarah, but I really really mean it now.
Reno and Falyn Snow are Sierra’s adoptive parents. They’re pretty cool and laid back, and that’s obviously imprinted on Sierra a bit. It’s uncertain, however, where she got the barefoot thing from. Maybe somewhere out there in the void, her biological mom is a flower child alwaysnude.
These… may be the penultimate batch of character models of family members introduced during this storyline? I know there’s at least one more to go from a character nobody’s ever seen before, but there may be some others who might’ve already have character art drawn.
Charles and Linda Walkerton are the parents of Walky and Sal. Linda was a pretty dang important character in the Old Universe’s It’s Walky!, sort of like how Gendo Ikari was important in Evangelion. She’s only five years younger here than she was in It’s Walky!, but I think she’d look relatively younger than that because she’s not a former government field agent in charge of running a super-stressful anti-alien organization which hopes to, uh, cancel the apocalypse, which probably would age you like it would the Presidency. So these are the younger, hipper Walkertons. As before, Linda’s a few years older than her husband.
Of course, the other major difference between them in Dumbing of Age and the Old Universe is that Linda and Charles actually raised Sal rather than hiding her across the country with a pair of foster parents. Here they only sent her across the country to go to a boarding school. Oh, Linda. Your parenting ideas are weird and arcane.
It’s like a who’s who of Shortpacked!‘s least popular players. On the left we’ve got Blaine O’Malley, Amber’s divorced and estranged father. He hasn’t been around in Amber’s life much, for Reasons. One of those reasons might involve Faz, on the right, a member of the family Blaine remarried into, but it’s not the most important one.
Not a lot of redesigning going on here. Blaine is the Old Universe’s Blaine, but with his temple grays replaced with lighter browns. Faz is Faz with a t-shirt instead of his usual toy store uniform.
Let’s see how they are in this universe.
Despite Ethan arguably being the main character of Shortpacked! for about eight years, we never saw much of his parents. In fact, we only got one glimpse of his mom’s arm. So I just kind of whole-hog made ’em up. Here Saul and Naomi Siegal are, for the first-ish time! And boy, do they have some weird ideas about homosexuality. In the Old Continuity, I imagine they figured out Ethan was gay before he did, and had kind of resigned themselves to it by the time he told them he was gay long after college, but in Dumbing of Age, Ethan came out in high school and his parents are still young and stupid.
Amber’s mom, Stacy O’Malley, suffered no huge changes in her translation from Shortpacked! other than shaving about a decade off her age. (Shaving a decade off one’s age doesn’t matter quite as much when we’re talking about scooting it from 50 to 40, versus, say, 20 to 10.) She’s a smidge skinnier and her chin is sharpened, but that’s about all that’s visibly altered.
That said, this process seems to have moved her from “I’d hit that, sure” to “God daaayyum.” Speaking for myself.
Don’t judge me.
All I knew going into this was that I wanted both the parental Saruyamas to wear hats. And on strip 4 of Dumbing of Age, they certainly did! Now we get a closer look.
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