I shall just piggyback off Shanie here since my story is shorter: discovered scattered issues of the second series* in college and thought what I had in my hands was awesome (oh hai look, girls in love omg in a comic right here across the street from this Methodist campus whatwhat omg) but confusing (I had like, Series 2, issues 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10, or something ridiculous like that, and often found it hard to visually tell Darcy and Francine apart at that point).
Picked it up later after I graduated and was buying comic regularly, lost track again during a massive period of depression in 1999-ish when I stopped buying comics altogether, then picked up trade paperbacks here and there over the years to try to catch up. Railed at the flashforward fakeout confusey storylines and would put it down for a year or so until I couldn't resist and picked another one up.
Vaguely thought of either of the girls as a playable character sometime around the time I was sending Door away but never got serious about it until Shanie commented to one of the Show Us Your Journals memes with Chewie who was super-far-down her potentials list. Me: I'mma make me a Francine journal and ENABLE THE HELL OUT OF HER UNTIL SHE FOLDS MUAHAHAHAHA. And then I re-read the entire series in the correct order including the issues I'd totally missed, made like 500 icons, stalked bugged Shanie about it forevers, and the rest is history.
And she's right: I used to ID with Katchoo because I'm short and good at pining, but now I can't really imagine not writing Francie. I don't have Chewie's anger issues, and know Francine's self-worth ones like the back of my hand.
* SIP goes Series 1 issues 1-3, Series 2 issues 1-13, and Series 3 issues 1-90. Welcome to the world of constantly changing publishers/self-publishing.
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Picked it up later after I graduated and was buying comic regularly, lost track again during a massive period of depression in 1999-ish when I stopped buying comics altogether, then picked up trade paperbacks here and there over the years to try to catch up. Railed at the flashforward fakeout confusey storylines and would put it down for a year or so until I couldn't resist and picked another one up.
Vaguely thought of either of the girls as a playable character sometime around the time I was sending Door away but never got serious about it until Shanie commented to one of the Show Us Your Journals memes with Chewie who was super-far-down her potentials list. Me: I'mma make me a Francine journal and ENABLE THE HELL OUT OF HER UNTIL SHE FOLDS MUAHAHAHAHA. And then I re-read the entire series in the correct order including the issues I'd totally missed, made like 500 icons,
stalkedbugged Shanie about it forevers, and the rest is history.And she's right: I used to ID with Katchoo because I'm short and good at pining, but now I can't really imagine not writing Francie. I don't have Chewie's anger issues, and know Francine's self-worth ones like the back of my hand.
* SIP goes Series 1 issues 1-3, Series 2 issues 1-13, and Series 3 issues 1-90. Welcome to the world of constantly changing publishers/self-publishing.