At least Peter's not dead, but there is yet another mouth to feed in the Bryce family now. Also been forever since I got top comment spot.

And you didn't shout it either. Someone deserves a cookie

FIRST!!! Also Can't wait to see the new nephew ^-^

Edit: Nooo beaten by a few seconds

Sorry mate, maybe next time

Doubtful... first time I've ever been this early to a release, but thank you

You can do it! I've gotten to be FIRST a few times! I've gotten so many cookies and been attacked by wild geese, it's insane!

Kind of telling too how arrogant the dad is with "How perfect our new Grandson is", especially with Star right there.

my thought exactly but i wanna strangle him... like he doesn't even value his own daughter... who is right there.. let alone the son he basically gave up on who wanted to end it because they didn't accept he was different..

Yeah...I hate him already!
Bastard.

yeah I also noticed something weird in that. knowing him it was a puja.

oh no

is it bad i feel bad for Star having parents like that? they just scream entitled... especially considering what happened to her. .brother

You shud feel bad for her... Her parents were abusive of her and her siblings growin up and kept abusin them as adults as shown with her brother <.<

I'm guessing Alex wasn't invited to this since Mr Bryce is likely still on bad terms with him.

I wud HOPE Alex has gotten a therapist who has encouraged him to go no contact with abusive ppl who refuse to accept him for who he is

techincally Star wasnt invited either. no one was really invited because it was largely just Stars Mum phoning to say "Hey Jess has had a baby" but the message got garbled by poor reception.

Well...at least there's a new baby! Kinda frustrating that they disregard Star's choice to give her in law some rest after being given that scare.

Theyre entitled parents who just became even more entitled grandparents (assumin no other grandkids, maybe i missed mention of some)

If Jess had a problem with it, she wudnt verbalise it bcuz she knows that her parents wud have a problem with her havin a problem with it <.< They know they can impose themselves on their kids bcuz their kids have nvr been allowed to be themselves, not openly to their parents, and have been raised to expect a punishment if they dont do what the parents want... Even as full grown adults like Alex.

I suppose, though we've seen Jess doesn't mind them so much from previous pages (and they have two older granddaughters from Jess and Matt).

I think it's more relaxed though with Matt and Jess? Like, yes, he's relatively awful with Alex and Star but seeing as Matt and Jess fit into Peter's views and wants more, I expect him to be alright with them and tbh their reaction over the grandchild is pretty normal seeing as eveyone been looking forward to him for 9 months. Plus it helps that Jess is an in law rather than a biological daughter.

Are you a child of abuse?

Thats all par for the course. The golden child archetype exists to describe the ppl who nvr have issues with the abusers, the ppl who the abusers wont show their true face to; and who are kept as ignorant of the abuse as possible so that they can act as those ppl excusin the behaviours and insistin "dad wudnt act like that" and similar

The fact Jess isnt of the family is more reason to expect she has no idea the extent to which this family is abusive. The fact she married the golden child also means that she is the least likely to see any of the abuse from the parents here.

But also the thing about the golden child and those other ppl kept out of the loop about the abuse... Theyre there to make the others question the veracity of the claims of abuse; to have ppl who will automatically assume that the "sensitive" members of the family are overblowin it and theyre just not able to tolerate a simple punishment or scolding

When i outed the abuse i suffered from my bioparents, two of my siblings sided with me, both had alrdy gone at least partial no contact with said bioparents of mine; but the other two? They refused to believe me, the THIRD kid of theirs to speak out about the abuse at home and the continuin of such abuse

Those two were the two kids who were always given favoiritism by my biomom. One for bein, at the time, her only daughter (still her only daughter cuz i disowned said biomom; bcuz she is a QAnon believin neonazi, and also the neglect and other abuse, but that was the final straw eventually), and the other for bein her youngest son, and thus her spoiled little baby brat

Neither of them wud believe a word we had to say about the abuse and other horridness. Bcuz, it wasnt what they saw. They saw me as the oversensitive one who cudnt tolerate simply bein told off for not doin smth right and who cudnt learn on my own like they did... They saw me as exaggeratin and hyperbolisin things, and they nvr will believe my truth bcuz theyve been manipulated into the position of golden child

Also, on said little baby brat bro... I do indeed see the connection between his spoiledness and bein protected by said biomom (who btw left me and a siblin with a p--- who hurt us for a decade but she managed to save her little baby from that <.<). Tho the rly hilarious thing to me is that a few yrs ago he reached out to me to ask for info on bein a caregiver bcuz he had a boyfriend who was a Little, and the whole world knows im a Little heh. As much as i hate that he got the golden child role, i have no actual ill will towards him and was gladly happy to help there :3

Yes, I am actually.

And I know what you're going for here, but tbh we haven't seen enough of the outside family beyond a few screenshots to automatically assume WHAT Jess's relationship is with her family. You can't really give me the "golden child" speech when you yourself don't even know the full details of Star's family, as well as what baby star's said.

But also Star's story and family isn't yours. What happened to you can't be used as a base for this comic and I'm not going to assume that Jess - an adult with her own opinions - isn't aware of it, you can still love and tolerate people who are awful, even if it isn't healthy for you, which is smth Star is currently in right now.

Peter is abusive and awful, but on the current page and moment - which I'm making my comments on - he's simply being normal. I AM expecting smth to happne later on, but I don't want to spend every page basically ranting about how he's an abuser and not appreciating and speculating the current events of the comic like almsot people are.

And like, I know you connect really fucking strong with Alex and Star in regards to their dad (you've been commenting the same type of stuff for three weeks now ever since the call) but tbh I would appreciate it if you didn't feel a need to reply to almost everyone's comments regarding the situation about your own life or you needing to explain that Peter's an abuser to every comment. I'm capable of acknowledging it and still being able to comment on other things without it being a main focus.

I think you might be projecting your life a little onto the story here as Jess has absolutely not married the golden child.

Jess in a daughter-in-law so hasn't been brought up by Lily and Peter. She gets on quite well with them, though she has had to bite her tongue on more than one occasion with Peter, but her and Lily get on really well.
Jess's relationship with Lily and Peter is pretty similar to my relationship with my in-laws, where my mother-in-law is amazing but my father-in-law I struggle with as he's quite racist and very anti-scottish and what with me being scottish..well... yeh...nuff said.

I like your art and this comic

That father.... His face is looking less like a face and more like a punching bag with each page....

At least it wasnt a tra

Sure it wasnt... <.<

Im super sus of every bit of this

That nervous star look in the last pannel

I'm still waiting for the hammer to drop! So if it isn't Alex, or Star's parents already seeing the flier and Matt's gone... then my guess is while everything is all peaceable, then the oldest and fastidious brother is gunna come in and "muck" everything up... or the subject of Alex will come up... possibly from Peter thinking everything is all hunky-dory with Star and the "whole" family and saying as much.

... Or, y'know, some feral geese could somehow waddle-wander into the hospital, but I find the chance of that happening to be around only 75%.

I'm scared that Peter is gonna be mean to Kim. Or that he's gonna realize Star and Kim are together.

OOF! Yet another possibility!

was gonna say "Oh boy"... but then again, this pun might be too terrible

I don't find it weird that her dad and mom are so proud of the grandson and calling him perfect. I think that's just typical grandparent behavior, like that's exactly how I've heard my parents talk that way about my nieces and nephews, and my friends' grandparents talk about them, and so on. To them, this a good day and they get to celebrate a new grandchild, instead of focusing on the wounds of the past.

Its quite interesting as an experiment isnt it. Like people know some of peters personality from other parts of the comic so they can read what he says and feel angry. Yet if this had been...lets say for example, Nana Cleo who just oozes motherly affection and love for everyone, saying that. People would be celebrating alongside her.

I just cant envision Nana Cleo sayin "Come see how perfect our grandson is" (or our son or any other connection for that matter)

I cud see smth where she says "He was born perfectly healthy" or similar tho, which i get why folks say it; even if i dont like it myself, as a disabled person who wasnt born perfectly healthy.

Cleo sees all life as precious and every child needs to be loved and cherished. So I could see her saying that because cleo has endless love for everyone.

(She also seems to view plenty of so-called "adults" as precious babies too...)

That's the strange thing about grandparents...They have a different relationship with their grandkids as opposed to their actual children...I don't know what it is, but they often seem nicer to their grand kids than they were to the ones who sired them. Like...This seems to be the case with damn near every person I know. Even their grandparents weren't abusive or perhaps did a decent job at parenting in their own right, they still somehow seem to be more caring when it comes to their grandkids. I wish I knew why. Let me tell you...My grandfather had a troubled relationship with my father to the point where he wouldn't even speak to him directly for a whole year....Yet, he seemed infinitely tolerant of my weirdness. Hell he never even complained about the music I listened to.

huh now that i think about it, i see that kind of things on american shows and such, but here in spain I dont think we do that.

Well grandpa, you may be proud of him now, but wait till he starts wreaking havoc on the world and becomes king of the pirates! Oh wait that the ONE PIECE world. :P

Considering how torrents are available, they can become pirates easily.

New party member unlocked!

Oh!? Star has her father's ears. *smiles*

She should probably give them back before he get's cross with her. *snickers* :-D

How can hear dad hear anything if she has his ears?
Giggles

“Perfect grandson” ..I might be reading too much into the wording but I’m sniffing a bit of misogyny here..

Ableism too >.>

Wow, Peter seems like the type of person who could say "Good Morning" and still make it sound like an insult.

Yeah, its the tone with which he says it to that last kid to get up and make it to breakfast, right before sayin "Im glad to see you Finally joined us"

Ok not what i was exspecting

I can already hear star imagining herself in the babies position with Kim being there and all

Personally dont see the chats fuss over the parents here, it's a happy ocassion dispite the scare. Boasting about how perfect the newborn is is normal.
All i see thenow is a family haveing a normal moment, with some of the useal banter between the old yins there in the first panal, love it ^_^.

We're only gona see if anythings wrong with this scenario with the next page or so, keep in mind for all his faults Star still loves her dad. Cany go makeing him to be the enemy when Star clearly dusent want that to be the outcome ^_^

Bcuz we know the parents are abusive...

And we arent makin Star's dad the enemy; he did that when he abused and neglected his kids, even as grown adults... As shown with Alex.

And i dont actually think Star still loves her dad as much as you assume... She has nvr once vocalised ANY love for him in the comics, and im prty darn sure how he treated Alex was an eye opener exp for her, even if she hasnt yet understood all the ways his abuse hurt her

Star has actually vocalised the fact she still loves her dad, in the fact that she hates the fact she still loves him. (in this page here but its the super heavy one, bottom panel https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35846233/ )

If she didnt love him she wouldnt have pretty much dropped everything to rush over to the hospital thinking he was sick.
Its probably more of a stockholme syndrome kinda love but its still a love nonetheless

Immediately that response about the phone sounds like it was intentional...

My brain is playin all the alarm bells at this whole scene with the parents...

"Perfect"? I dunno, that coming from her dad didn't sound right.

Its exactly what i wud expect from the kind of person who thinks bein gay is wrong and deservin of a sucker punch even to ones own adult son

Honestly, the bigotry is nvr isolated to one path of bigotedness... So i very much exp some ableism in there on top of the homophobia and misogyny, if not other forms of bigotry as well

It's perfect that they have a grandson and kids, a mother and child, rather than a baby girl who seems to spend much of her time around other girls and probably doodling at work.

"Perfect", oh boy I hope the kid's a fighter but not in the sense ol' grampy thinks XD

Is CTN done?

NOpe was just on hiatus. ill be picking it back up now that i have time again

Okay as I enjoyed reading it and maybe safety will get more babyish pamps

53rd!

The geese were sleeping...so they've only just woken up and have decided to attack you instead...sorry

Haven't seen the geese in awhile. But if they ever come after me. I know what to do. Feed them some bread and cracker. And before the geese know it they will be to fat and stuffed to run after this fox.

I'm hoping the next pages go well, but knowing how Star and her dad have been in the past in the comic, I'm not convinced this is going to end well..

why do i have the sensation that everything is going to scalate really quickliy now? someone is going to click the switch and the bomb is going to explode at some point.

My father never hit me with a belt but sometimes kick me in my shanks or slaps behind of my ears and got periodical rages. I can partially forgive him because he got a so difficult childhood, as a young adult. He lived stuff that I don't want to say now, here.
He took care of me and my brother more than my mother, bring us to medical visits (a lot, for anything), bring us to the school, clean and ironed uniforms, cook and a lot of things, really are looking for rising children.
He only is so broken.

Yes. Sounds familiar. My grandfather was a holy terror, and my father was a hard man, and not emotionally there.
Times were different and the period over two world wars and a economic depression in the states,required hardness to survive.
I didn't think so at the time, but seems like each generation is getting better.

The males are more complex that we think, I only see one time to my grandfather, not a warm guy. And I never see, but I know that my father has moments where was broke and cried.

And yes, these new generations are great, are fewer children but more adults to take care of them and the tools for their development. Maybe it is so critiqued, but the real contras are few from my point of vision.

My dad was kidnapped during this coup to be a Slavic descendant. He lived in a little town, raised from a group of Slavs. The putsch hit so hard in the town, many innocent teenagers were taken prisoner.
My father was a prisoner for five years.

Glad it's something good! Still a stressful situation to be in

This sounds like a page out of my life, only payphones and running out of dimes XD
Yes, I'm old. Cheers to the new Kitt in the family.

Calling it now, Star's going to see the baby and some further internal revelations are going to occur about vulnerability and about why she likes being smol.
Perhaps with some flashbacks involved.

Here I though Star is crying on the last panel (cleaning her tear) but luckily she isn't ... I hope she won't

Oh bless I was so worried

"perfect grandchild" is just like agh

Every grandparents have their favorites, also is like an expression to put social force into Star, is like over here where my narcissist mother start to put pressure on me to get a boyfriend and have kids, even she knows I am into abdl and do not want kids, hah.

Over here in one side of my grands, I adore my grandmother but she died when I was 7 and her couple died when I was 10.

While the other side, my grandmother discriminates me by my skin color, while my grandpa totally ignores me, he just watches tv all day.

Am I the only one who doesn't get why Peter's statement about "perfect grandson" was received that poorly?
We know he was a terrible father, but that statement is fairly neutral, just a proud grandfather.
It would be preferable if he had the same attitude towards his children (being perfect by merely existing) but that's an argument for another page

By the way I love the fact that Star plays with her braid when she's nervous

Its an ableist thing to say, bcuz ppl dont say it when a kid is born clearly disabled... Its also an intersexphobic thing to say given how many intersex ppl are 'born perfect' but docs feel they have to mutilate us before we actually are "perfect"

I believe that is a bit of a stretch. Just because you praise your grandkid for being perfect doesn't automatically conclude that disabled (grand) children are imperfect. It could also simply be that the kid is very precious (which they all are)

Again. Not defending Peter as a character but I don't get malicious intend from this sentence

Its not that ppl mean to say such things, but that is the harm such language has; regardless of intent

Ppl dont call disabled or intersex children perfect when we are born bcuz we dont fit the idea of perfect "ten fingers ten toes" and similar such logic

Folk can cause harm with their words without any ill intent

Everyone reading so far into the comments about the grandchild. Like...I'm almost laughing because that's the reaction for almost every baby to ever come into my family.

That's right. They're _ALL_ perfect. All of them. "Come and see them! They're so perfect!"

It's not meant as a literal thing. Like "This child can do no wrong." and is really more of a pejorative "They're so cute and small and are just precious right now".

It's in the same category as family telling a little kid/baby they're 'so cute I could eat you up!'. They're not literally going to consume the child for pities sake.

Although Peter does have that perfectly smug face that makes me want to throw a box of Kleenex at the back of his head and then pretend I don't know where they came from after he gets bonked. XD

I just know her dad is gonna do SOMETHING. Don't trust this!

OMFG MOM'S TAIL!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Im finally caught up with the comic, dont know if thats a good thing tho, i have to wait to keep reading now lol

I miss all the early adventures at Manda and Lure's place and Flare's place. When is Star gonna get some more play time? 🥰

I mean, the work event is gonna have a lot of playtime and thats what this is week in the comic is leadin up to

I just found this comic a few days ago. I was sad to find that the next button stopped working. This is awesome and adorable!