I don't have a page or even a preview for anyone, however, I do have an interesting story behind this project. Before it became a simple gag strip, it was supposed to be... fictional literature. An actual "romantic-y" fiction. The reason why the comic has such a bubbly title is because it was a little love story. It's completely different from what it is now.
Of course, Keith likes Jin, and she does not return the feelings... at first. In fact, even Keith doesn't take interest Jin from the start. They both were supposed to develop their feelings over time. It was all supposed to be a short little story with development and well-rounded characters, and I turned it a silly little gag comic with some stereotypical characters.
In development, Ae Jin wasn't an angry bitch who immediately cussed and pushed away others. She didn't even cuss at all. She did dislike (not hate) people, but she only unintentionally glared at others. She was not entirely unfriendly, but she still looked unfriendly. Yes, she still found Keith annoying and a creep, but she never pushed him away in an extremely cold manner. By the end of the story, she eventually returned his feelings. Yeah, this is not the Jin you know. I took this slightly antisocial girl and pushed her into the extreme, making her very antisocial and hateful asshole.
Keith was not Keith Haymour--his name was Alden Hayward. Alden was still a happy and optimistic little idiot, but he doesn't hallucinate and believe Jin is a goddess. He was still a bit of a perverted stalker and you could say he was a little obsessed with Jin, but not as extreme as the Keith you know. He actually tried to remove Jin's antisocial tendencies and made her open up. Jin wasn't a complete open book by the end of the story, but Alden surely did get closer and help her. Just like Jin, I took Alden and pushed him into the extreme, transforming him into the extremely happy and perverted Keith you know.
Now why did his name turn from "Alden" to "Keith"? I'm not sure; I just didn't like the name. The name Alden means "old friend" but that doesn't make sense in the story, and even more so in the gag comic, so I changed it. I don't remember why I chose "Keith" though. As for the change from "Hayward" to "Haymour", I think I screwed up his name and started to believe that it was "mour" and not "ward".
In the story, Jin was supposed to be somewhat mysterious. She held a dark secret, and Alden came along and figured it out. This is where Alden's last name came from. Hayward means "guardian of the hedged enclosure". Jin is like a mysterious "closed hedge", and Alden found the secrets of that closed hedge, but he 'guards' it with his life. Now for the story behind Jin's name. Ae Jin Kyung literally means "truth, treasure, love, and brightness". Her name was meant to be ironic, considering that she certainly doesn't 'love and treasure' anything or anyone and even hides a certain truth. However, by the end of the story, she learns something about "truth, treasure, love, and brightness". I kept her name in the gag comic because it's still unfitting and ironic for her.
I never plan to make Jin like Keith in the gag comic, and she does not have a dark secret, so don't think the gag comic is going to get incredibly serious. The webcomic is going to stay a gag comic, period.
So yeah, I took a supposedly well-thought story and completely transformed it into a gag comic with a simple premise. I took well-rounded characters and pushed them both into extremes, transforming them into stereotypical characters. Why? 'Cause I couldn't make a full coherent plot. I was only able to make a beginning and end, but no middle. I thought of a few tidbits in the middle, but I couldn't peace them together in a flowing plot. That's where the gag comic came from--a few small tidbits from the middle, not from the beginning and end I thought of.
To tell you the truth though, I still like to turn Jin into a tsundere and ship them together~, but that's not canon in the webcomic universe.
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