Some strips like this I wonder: what is Dije’s last line referring to? Is he suggesting that it wouldn’t have been as much fun if he’d been convinced he could be trans? Or simply that it wouldn’t have been as much fun if he’d been dismissive and not believed in her. I’ll never know what i was thinking.
It’s a charming bit of ambiguity, fitting well with Dije’s personality, and expressing the ineffable. Of course it could be all the above, plus helping Judi go from female to male, plus her seducing him to willfully convince herself of the need for gender reassignment, plus any other reversal of the circumstances, under the circumstances.
It’s a fitting coda to Judi’s journey, and very hard to pull off as a matter of storytelling. I like this resolution very much for the suggestion of what else could have, might have, nearly have happened…. if only. I still smile at it. Well done, Chris. Well done.
Thank you Pete. And thank you for leaving such thoughtful and contemplative comments. I hope someday to catch a cuppa with you in Ann Arbor. :)
Thank YOU, Chris. And yer on. Lemme know in time so I can find my shoes.