tones, tones, tones and MORE TONES THIS PAGE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH MOOD

also Idk, one of the 'struggles' of writing in a semi-shared universe is: how much do you explain about it per comic, as not all readers are gonna know everything about this universe, so you do have to exposition a little, but expositioning all the time is bad and you should trust readers to pick up context clues

idk if i succeeded enough here but it's known Jake's the god of lies so even if you don't get the other reasons this was cruel you'll at least pick up on that

i think

i hope