Teenage Sith Apprentice

I took a vacation from the strip in November 2019. As a result, there are only about three comics in the strip originating from that time. Man, my handwriting is awful. . . sorry if you have trouble reading that. Esther apparently runs some sort of comedy vlog that specializes in videos of Ava that would probably provoke a lightsaber duel to the death if Ava ever found out about them. Fortunately, there's nothing Esther loves more than doing stupid things and getting injured as a result! (Not kidding. The kid's a hardcore masochist.)

Anne is the main character of the Teenage Sith Apprentice world, despite not being a teenager anymore (she turned twenty this year, in the backlog of comics, I am in December 2019, when she was still 19). I'll get around to putting a picture up her soon, so everybody can tell which character I'm talking about. . . oh wait. . . found one. There, that's Anne. As she appears in a soon to be posted comic, although that's really how I draw her anytime she doesn't have a line. Anne is the Emperor Palpatine's daughter and technically an only child, although there's this kind of weird running joke in her family where her father constantly references a son whose existence he and Emily Jenner Palpatine (Anne's mom) are very ambiguous about. Anne has been hearing about him for 20 years and still doesn't know if he really ever existed, much less wether he's still alive today or where he is. Anne is about 20 years old; her birthday is April 12, 2000.

Rachel, you used to scavenge around in the Judland Wastes for krait dragon kills which you would dig up to use as food. I kinda doubt anyone would consider you the epitome of good taste. (Including yourself. I mean, you used to eat Anne's cooking of all things, at least until Ava enlightened you as to what was in it.) Here we see Ava trying to get rid of the ice cream from last night. Apparently even Rachel couldn't stomach a whole gallon of it. Also, the weird nonsense phrase in Panel 2. . . it's a Hebrew phrase that does translate to "the third time, ice cream." I guess it's something you say when you meet up with somebody on accident twice in the same day? I'm not an expert on the subject; those are three of only four words I know in Hebrew. And I'm not even sure which word means what. It did make it really easy to figure out what to title this post, however.

Generally not a good thing. Oh, was that what all that crashing and banging was, Esther? Never tell Esther what to do. She'll do it, in a way that both fills your requirement and drives you crazy. For instance, don't ever get Esther onto the topic of religion. In theory, Esther is an Orthodox Jew; in practice. . . not so much. Let's just say that, on those rare occasions when Esther does show up at synagogue, Ava makes sure she's far enough away from her for no one to realize they're sisters.

Yes, Rachel, it is. You got kicked out of the Bakuran capital ("Look, Bucket, we don't mean to be harsh - but either get rid of the cat or get out of here!") because Doomdreg was going around town randomly putting people in the hospital. And those people hadn't provoked him in any way; can you imagine how much worse it is if you throw water over him? Yeah, you see, if Rachel can't walk or move her fingers, she can't get back into the fray with Doomdreg.

Here's how the average day starts in the Bucket residence when Rachel, Grand High Queen of Paranoia, is in a good mood: Unnecessary line of text to break between two comics. Rule no. 1 of survival on the Bakuran University campus: Do not annoy Susan McCombre. True story, if you replace Ava with me. I wrote a letter in a very emotional state. . . then I sent the letter in a very emotional state. . . and I spent the next two weeks worrying about how the other person was going to take it. This is a paraphrision of a Percy Jackson remark, where Percy says his mom always told him not to drink out of the Hudson or he'd grow a third eye or something. The word (phrase) I phased out in P2 is "knocked up." I meant it to mean that Rachel has had a rough life and it has left scars that still show raw. (Namely, Rachel will still clobber real good anyone who even looks like sneaking up on her when she's out shopping. There'

Something I forgot to mention: Esther Skywalker, Ava's younger sister, turned 18 and started attending college in 2019. She has the IQ of a grapefruit, so she'll be there for far longer than either Anne or Ava. She lives with them in Rachel's house, but she didn't really become a main cast member until. . . January 2020, I think. Ava is forever stating that Esther can't possibly be her biological sister. Luke is forever replying, "I was there when you were both born." Ava is always replying that Esther is committably insane and also a tad bit suicidal. And it goes on and on and on. Anne, you once connocted soup that showed signs of  un intelligent life. Don't give me that.

For those of you who agree with Anne in that last panel, that means, "Somewhere out there there is an alternate universe in which I got all A's." I wrote this on the same day I decided to stop reading my local newspaper because the headlines were a tad disturbing (a lot of sex crimes being covered).