My final job as a parent!

So cute. ^__^

Also, Wai is 18...my gosh...

Yeah, I can hardly believe it too. Have to update her character model again.

Gads...has it been 18 years already? Bet she's at that "You guys suck!" stage like most teens.

Yeah, can't believe how fast the last couple of decades have gone. And luckily she didn't really go through that. Though she really needs to start thinking about her career prospects.

My, my, time flies!

Teenagers give parents sassy attitude. Parents give teenagers a reason to stop going outside anymore. XD

Yep, it goes both ways.

Two-way street is just what it says it is. XD

she is yougner because my character akelmona is hybrid dragon and wolf, she is 30 year no matter

I have her birth certificate for 10th of February 2002. She is 18.

yeah i look that has born :3

Man, I remember when she showed up :)

Awww proud parents can always embarrass their kids hehe

Wow, has it been that long? O:

Happy birthday to her!

But yeah, the photo-album-based-embarrassment is a classic. You have to keep up the tradition. <:

Has it really been that long...?
Holy crap.

It's like a facebook, except in print! Also right to left instead of scrolling down!

And people don't leave comments.

Not in a way readable two years later, at least. Plenty of comments in the present polite company.

Good lord. It really has been that long. XD

Hehe, so cute, and yes, she's completely and utterly mortified. Poor Wai's gonna go sulk in the corner, playing with Lego and making marshmallows go crunch.

She's that old already?!

Back then on VCL... how many years...

I feel so oldddddd...

Same. Especially now that VCL is defunt.

I was just thinking the same thing...

I remember that comic. That was one of the first comics I read when I discovered your art. That was a great series. I miss it.

Looks like her friends have gotten older too.

I miss it too and yeah, even in the absence of the comic, everyone is getting older in real time.

18....years.... x.x

I was just thinking of Red and Dutch's wedding at SDCC in 89, and Their kid in 1990!! That kid would be THIRTY now!

I recently received a copy of Scudder Kidwell's 'Crusade' where Scudder was out to top that series of events with Beth the magical hornless unicorn. What a flipping joke!

THIRTY DAMN YEARS!!! Berzerker is 30!!

Errf...make that Steinling.

Berzerker was Red and Helvetica's kid.

Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time. Miss Helvetica and his art.

i remember how she got her name. "WAI!"

that'd make a fun story to tell her friends

Yeah, it's fun reliving those comic strips again.

I wish I still had my copies of Barr Wars from the late 80s/early 90s when Ed Pegg printed them. How our Characters literally taken a life of their own on.

Red Shetland's first son, Steinling would be 30, her twins would be 28. And yes, we aged them with actual time.

I did that in another storyline I was running for years in Rowrbrazzle, a slice of life story that was based on real time. The main character, a Vietnam vet in 1971, had a daughter with his wife in 85 , later widowed and was a single dad raising an infant daughter somehow. That kid would be 35 at the pace I set the strip today.

I just feel that as characters age, they are given new story opportunities as life situations and relational dynamics change over time. I guess the overarching message of In A Perfect World is always 'We'll get through this together."

XD Wow Happy Birthday Wai :3 Wow all grown up o.O I remember when she was just a wee thing playing gargoyles on the banister.

A happy belated Birthday to her... going to be real interesting once she starts dating:P

OMG Has it been 18 years already?! Where'd the time go?? :O

I dunno, but I wish it wouldn't so quickly.

MOM!

How cute ^^

Well, this is still less embarrassing than maybe some baby photos?

God how time flies.

Hi there, not to sound creepy or anything, but your art and the IAPW comic kinda was how I got into the fandom and got to accept myself as a non-binary fur.

When I was younger, I learned of hentai from a friend, and got into animal people boinking human girls, then eventually just animal people boinking each other. I had mild interest in futanari, but it was around the time where Doug Winger was at his peak, and the idea of hermaphrodites brought images of breasts bigger than torsos, wasp waists, and male genitalia the size of entire humanoid forms. Depressed me that it was kind of "the norm".

Then I saw your character, a hermaphrodite with predominantly male qualities, none of which out of proportion, experiencing simple but honest intimate affection with either sex. Even when your character developed feminine traits, they were never drastic.

You even had a beautiful child, lil Wai there, and aside from the occasional joke, gender never came into the equation, it was just being happy with what you felt was right for you and never letting pre-conceived notions of what one's physical sex dictate anything.

It kinda helped me find a place of identity, and I even joined your message board and met my first furry friends there. (I remember you getting angry at us for using it as a chat room practically. Still sorry about that ^^;)

I'm so happy you are still doing well and making beautiful art, just being yourself. 18 years is a long time... but for all the hardships? It's nice knowing some things remain as happy and beautiful as they ever were.

One thing I've learnt and try to share is it's more important to simply love the people you're with, and accept them for who and what they are (or want to be or how they see themselves). At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what colour, sex, gender, or even species we are, we are brought together by the things we share and enriched by the things that make us different. I wanted to show this by example through the comic as it's a reflection of our real life relationship.

And this too is why I love the Furry fandom so much. We have such diversity and yet are still so inclusive. I'm glad you found a place here amongst us. Probably one of the best places to be - especially in today's social climate.

And yeah, I was a bit of a dick with that chat room. Think I took it all a little too seriously back then.

Daw~ That's super sweet and cute ^^