Blog Post! 3.13

Blog Post! 3.13

★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 13 - Riverside ★

✓Not sure if Bob and Alicia are more excited about Jack getting the ‘A’ or hearing their son say he’s in a committed relationship. Probably both.

✓ Jack Zimmermann is one of the best hockey players in the NHL. How proud is Eric Bittle? Bitty is SO proud. I mean, the guy says it. But Bitty is also not that surprised. Like George, Bitty kinda expected Jack to take the league by storm. To get Samwell to the NCAA finals and playoffs, Jack put the team on his back for about 4 years. He’s in better shape at 25 than he was at 18. (Despite the pies.) And remember, Jack Zimmermann was going to be a first round draft pick, if not first over all. Also? Jack straight-up asked his dad, one of the greatest hockey players alive, “what do I need to do to be ready for the league?” (Bob: you’re ready you’ve always been ready you’re really good at Hockey, my son, you realize this right?)

✓ Team Snowball Fight!!! The Boys were very excited to play in the snow and build a snowman. And they probably had cocoa afterward. I’m telling you, this hockey team is frightfully wholesome when they’re not shoving pee snow down each other’s pants.

✓ Jack and Bitty are out of control. The amount of PDA they bring into the Samwell Hockey Haus is, to quote Derek Nurse, “like Mad OD”. Quite frankly, Derek is correct. The first week it’s cute but when it’s February and your bud is still calling your other bud “a sweet thoughtful hunk of a man”, you’re kind of like — “YA??? BROS? WE GET IT.”

✓ Please, hockey team, just let Bitty kiss this sweet thoughtful hunk of a man in peace. Less than 1% of JLZ/ERB kisses are taken to locker room court. That just messed with your head, right???? The math on that does NOT check out. But the other kids on SMH are getting fined left and right too. Flubbing a kegstand? Fine. Ripping one within five feet of a captain or manager? Fine. Displaying groddy-ass wheels when trying to pick up a kegster cutie? Fine. Getting locked out of the Haus? Fine. Getting locked in the Haus?(???) Fine. Being a pie hog? FINE. Falling asleep on the den couch (aka dumpster diving, new infringement proposed by E. Bittle [2015])? Fine. Throwing a game controller, flipping a board game, or yelling at someone for playing an inopportune monopoly dev-card and hoarding sheep? Fine. Crying over a San Jose Sharks win? Fine. Crying over baby sharks pics? Fine. PDA in the presence of your dear teammates? Yet another fineable offense. No one is safe.

✓ Up for discussion: Bitty calling up one of his classic looks from the farm? Oh my gosh, throwback Thursday! Bitty’s black sweater, black jeans, camel toggle coat combo. Grey wool socks peeking out from the boots. Red Samwell scarf from the Samwell book store? Completed with boyfriend-bought 2015 NHL Providence Falconers (Blue) Cuffed Knit Beanie and matching NHL Providence Falconers (Blue) Convertible Mittens.

✓ A summer kiss and a winter kiss. Dang, there were a few kisses in the fall but they weren’t that big. Have to make up for it with a big springtime kiss, I guess?

☆ Up Next: There are worse things than staring at the water on a Monday?

☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Not much news here (check out the last blog post!) but I’ll say again that you won’t be seeing many comics from me until probably March? But, I’ll be posting lots of commissions to keep the blog somewhat fresh.

☆ Conventions. When viewing omgcheckplease on mobile, you can see these listed on the sidebar. I’m doing a ton in 2017. I won’t be able to add more conventions to this list, unfortunately, but I’ll let you all know when more are confirmed. I love meeting readers but every convention takes a good week and a half out of my comic book drawing time! But for now I’m heading to

2017 Convention Schedule

☆ ECCC (March 2nd - March 5th) ☆ C2E2 (April 21st - April 23rd) ☆ TCAF (May 13th - May 14th) ☆ Anime Expo (July 1st - July 4th) ☆ NYCC?? A conv in TX? SPX? AWA?

Two more updates are left in the #BittyBomb. Thanks again for reading this comic! Have a good one!