AAaA Frigg 2
I can honestly say that I had never really considered this angle, and I’m glad Phil was the one to address it. Matters of fashion have always been a challenge for me as a writer, which you’d understand if you saw my wardrobe.
Challenges are made to be overcome, and I think I handled my end better with each successive series, but Guilded Age also benefited from Erica willing to do a lot of research on medieval fashions to establish key characters’ looks, and from fantasy outfits being a bit more in Jason and John’s wheelhouse than “what the teens are wearing now,” which drove us all crazy on Penny and Aggie. I saw all kinds of obstacles coming after Gisèle Lagacé left that series, but that one blindsided me.
Wait, which comic was I annotating again?
It’s a good thing you aren’t a mangaka! It seems like a decent fashion sense is almost required to draw it. And series with teenage protagonists requires intimate knowledge with “what the teens are wearing now” unless you literally never leave high school. (Even then, the uniforms are much more varied and fashionable than uniforms in western schools.)
Also I need to reread Penny and Aggie sometime.
How does Wheeler know about Frigg’s armpit grooming practices? Did it come up before in this comic? I must have missed it.
Frigg’s shown her pits off a few times, either bandaged from injury or otherwise. Don’t think it’s ever explicitly discussed, just a fact of her character design that she lacks hairy pits.
Oh. I must not have noticed that, or, if I did, I just assumed the drawing wasn’t detailed enough to include body hair.