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Mike Olbinski's avatar

Welp, sitting on the edge of my seat after BOOM haha. Loved the mood and setting for this, not to mention the realism of everything from the texting to the theater to post-lockdown feelings about being a movie theater again, much how I felt. Cant wait for the next bit. Also one little note, I'm sure you are aware and wont need us to chime in, but the winky face emoji he sends about the "second date" is missing in the initial text panel. Thanks you guys for allowing us to read this!

Brian K. Vaughan's avatar

How could I miss that crucial emoji?! Many thanks, Mike, we'll fix it shortly!

Brian K. Vaughan's avatar

All files have been magically updated, thanks again!

Mike Olbinski's avatar

Awesome, glad I could help!!!

Klaas V.'s avatar

Amazing! Two of my favorite creators teaming up again and releasing a short on the first day of their substack? Count me in! Love how you set the mood for the next parts to come. Can’t wait!

Brian K. Vaughan's avatar

Thanks, Klaas! By the way, for the moment, I believe only our paid subscribers can comment on posts, so we appreciate your support and look forward to hearing from more of you. We still love our free subscribers, as well, and they're always welcome to...spectate.

Klaas V.'s avatar

Hi Brian, looks like there is a glitch in the matrix. I signed up for the founder tier. Guess I should have taken the blue pill. Should I mail you to fix it?

Brian K. Vaughan's avatar

Oh, if you have the ability to comment here, it means you successfully signed up at a paid level (including Founder), so you should be fine, presuming that's what you intended to do! Stay tuned for details about your rewards, and let us know if we can do anything to help!

Jordan Brailean's avatar

Interesting start. Has me equally fearful and intrigued as to what's to come 😂.

Ratchet Mart's avatar

I finally figured out what Substack is! It's nice here. Thank you for the invite. I brought spanokopitas, but I'll need to use your oven.

Ready Player One's avatar

So happy to have you both here and proud to be a founding member! BKV, I was hoping you’d be on substack soon when all the announcements came flowing out last year. Thanks for making my day.

Aaden H's avatar

Great first chapter, can’t wait to see where this story goes! Welcome to Substack, BKV!

Ron Kirkley's avatar

Maybe it was just me but the whole thing had this sense of dread and tension and then ... Boom 😂 I was like, wait, that can't be it ... Oh damn, that's it. I love that I have no idea what this is or where we are going but that's cool because I know I am in good hands. Congrats and good luck!

Niko Henrichon's avatar

Thanks Ron! We'll try to exploit the singular characteristics of this way of diffusion to bring surprises and unexpected events. Hope you'll follow us on this ride.

Jake O'Brien's avatar

Well, colour me intrigued. Wonderful to see the two of you working on a project together again. I love the idea of this whole process too and am looking forward to the peeks behind the curtain. Very excited to be jumping on at the ground level. I guess I'll have to remove "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats from my 'back to work' playlist...

Uncle Phil's avatar

BOOM

Ryan's avatar

Really exciting start and I can’t wait to see what you guys do with this! I even showed it to someone who doesn’t read comics and she both loved it and subscribed to see how the story continues :).