BRINDLA and KYLEEN have moved the park bench outside and are continuing their conversation about books:
BRINDLA: If the HEADSTABBERS: FATHOMS books AREN'T actually GOOD, why have you read so many of them?
KYLEEN: You go back home. You see a childhood friend.
KYLEEN (beginning a reverie): You're on different paths now, but there are still some things you two share that aren't present anywhere else in your life. You spent SO MUCH time together at Jambalaya Jim's Juice Jumpery on Sixth Ave. Those COUNTLESS hours in the smoothie place that was also an unlicensed trampoline gym were FORMATIVE.
KYLEEN (now sitting in an imaginary vacant lot -- this is an extremely subtle shift and will be missed by all but the most attentive of readers): That spot's been a vacant lot now for DECADES. Who else has access to THAT PART of you? No one but someone who was THERE.
KYLEEN: Reading the books returns me, not just to the familiar world IN the books... But to a place where I can VISIT the ME that has spent so much time in that world.
BRINDLA: Got it. Sunk cost fallacy.
KYLEEN: I prefer to think of it as a sunk cost ADVENTURE.
BRINDLA (looking at one of the books): It says here that SUNK COST ADVENTURE is the title of book #57 in the series!
KYLEEN: THAT'S where I got the IDEA!
On certain days, when I pass by a trash can full of rotten fruit and children's vomit, I get a very strong sense memory of being inside Jambalaya Jim's
This storyline started with Part 1.
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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