A single panel splash page of a cluttered hallway. Some of the things that make up the clutter are items left by years of musicians and artists coming and going through this space. There's a shopping cart filled with junk, an old upright piano that's been spraypainted various colors, a trashcan that's covered in graffiti and stickers. Traffic cones lie next to an old sofa. In the far distance, beneath an arrow pointing to the left below a spray-painted "EMERGENCY EXIT" leans an old mattress and a ladder.

On the wall of the hallway, the chapter title reads, "CHAPTER 2: PAGAN BABY."

From the door nearest us, Denver's voice continues, "...we just gotta get him to say yes first."
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Bonus update aka DOUBLE TIME (incredible pun credited to the great comic artist Hika over on Bluesky).

I had a lot of fun drawing this hallway of the rehearsal space Tennyson uses. All the stuff you see in it are things that could be found in a rehearsal studio building just like it here in my city.

Anyway, now I finally get to talk about the song this chapter's named out of! I'm trying really hard to keep all the boys' personal playlists era-accurate, but I'm breaking that rule for the chapter titles because a lot of great music has come out since the mid 2000s and it pains me not to be able to reference it, haha.

Alright, see you next week for our regular update schedule!