Borgus visit his parents, Gophrey and Emelea. Gophrey sits stoically, a bulbous protrusion on his scalp pulsating gently with his heartbeat. Emelea wears a large bonnet adorned with a feather, which bobs slowly in the breeze from the gaslamps.
BORGUS: Mom...Dad...You'll tell me the truth, right?
GOPHREY: Of course, Sport-O.
BORGUS: Are there little goblins that wear our underwear? And we have to let them do it so we're not struck by lightning? Is that a real thing in the world?
[The parents exchange a nervous glance.]
BORGUS: I'm not hearing a swift denial! Isn't this something you thought I should KNOW about?
GOPHREY: Well...we thought you'd hear about it on the playground, I guess. Or at school. Don't they teach about it in eighth grade?
BORGUS: We lived at SEA that year! You won that terrible YEARLONG CRUISE! I learned NOTHING except the warning signs of Legionnaire's disease!
GOPHREY: Ah! INDEED. Out at sea, it's more of a MERMAID situation. Your mother and I ACTUALLY worked out a bit of an ARRANGE--
EMELEA: GOPHREY! HUSH! Some things are PRIVATE!!
MORE SECRETS, MOTHER? IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME??
This storyline began 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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