Page 73 of Keeping Time

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Panel 1: Daniel's mother, Emi, stands in the foreground, arms crossed over her chest. She turns to look at Daniel over her shoulder. Daniel, for his part, is slumped in front of his laptop, holding his head up with his hand.

Emi says, "That's no excuse." Daniel tries to speak, but is cut off by Emi snapping, "Sit up straight." Daniel tries again, now able to get the words out: "Mom. This is why I asked you to wait another couple of days before you came over."

Panel 2: Emi motions towards herself, her expression incredulous as she asks, "What, so I’m the bad guy for wanting to see my son? After he left me alone for six years while my whole life fell apart?"

Panel 3: Daniel is now sitting up straight. His face is dispassionate as he sits for a second in silence.

Panel 4: Daniel looks down, his expression somewhere between resigned, exhausted, and guilty. He answers, "I’ll get this place cleaned up tonight."

Panel 5: The panel pulls out to reveal more of Daniel's living room. Much of the large furniture is in place, but there are still a few moving boxes around. Emi returns to her default resting position, her arms once again folded across herself. She scowls and says, "I only wanted to make sure your father didn’t set you up in some condemned rat's nest. At least this area seems nice enough."

Daniel doesn't say anything and simply listens. In front of him, his laptop appears to be open to an email inbox.
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Posted on January 14, 2025 by Kody

Emi is the kind of woman who has a standing appointment at "the hairdresser" to get her grays covered up.

Also, gosh, now that we're down to once a week updates again I a) am lonely, I MISS CHATTING WITH YOU ALL TWICE A WEEK IN THE COMMENTS and b) feel guilty because I now have to shove a ton of info at you all in one post update instead of being able to spread them out over two, haha!! ALAS, SUCH IS LIFE. Here we go!

Some exciting things happened over the winter break in regards to Keeping Time! The first of which is... Keeping Time is now a part of the KNIFEBEETLE webring! Wahoo! 🎉

The Keeping Time cover art with the KNIFEBEETLE logo.

Ever since I launched Keeping Time last year, it's been a a little dream of mine to make it into KNIFEBEETLE. So when I saw Eve G, the webring master, open up KNIFEBEETLE apps again this fall, I was super excited, haha! It's a total honor to be among such great company over there. If you're looking for other longform, narrative-driven webcomics that span genres from Historical to Sci-Fi, definitely check out the other comics there!

In other exciting news, Keeping Time was awarded "Exceptional Webcomic" by the Comic Book Yeti's 3rd Annual Indy Comics Excellent (ICE) Awards! Thank you so much to Amy Chase for putting us out there! This is Keeping Time's very first award, and it makes me teary-eyed!

Speaking of end of the year awards, I want to do another huge shoutout to Jadzia Axelrod for naming Keeping Time as one of her favorite comics of 2024 on The Stampies: Best Comics of 2024. (Jadzia is a hugely talented comic writer and one of the creators of the openly trans DC superheroine, Galaxy, and it's is just such a massive honor for her to shout us out!) Thank you, Jadzia!

Finally, I was interviewed about Keeping Time again! This time, I got to chat with the wonderful Brant Lewis over at Graphic Policy. The podcast just released last week, so if you want to hear me ramble a little more about Keeping Time, please enjoy, haha!

Okay. That's it from me for now, I swear. See you next Tuesday!