Judging from this page, Kierie and her friends are showing they’re way more responsible adults than a lot of the other, much older grownups in Anna’s life.
Something I really appreciate about Rigsby, WI — especially in comparison to Cheap Thrills — is highlighted really well with Kierie. Regarding Kierie’s handful of appearances in CT, iirc she was relegated to being kind of vapid trailer trash; here, she’s still, for lack of a better word, “trashy”, but also not a bad person for it. She definitely seems to be the best influence in Anna’s direct family life right now, at any rate.
This is also something I noticed with Jenna in chapter 1; it’d be easy to make her a flatly annoying clingy girlfriend, but despite her occasional lapses into teenage obnoxiousness, she doesn’t seem to be a bad person; I keep thinking about how she’s super supportive of Jeordie’s friendship with Beth, when a lazier writer could just make her petty, territorial, and jealous, because That’s How Teenage Girls Be Am I Right Fellas.
I loved and still love CT, but seeing the ways in which the characterization on all the characters, but especially the female ones, has changed and matured is really great.
Almost like that matters more than all the female being conventionally pretty, or something.
Judging from this page, Kierie and her friends are showing they’re way more responsible adults than a lot of the other, much older grownups in Anna’s life.
Something I really appreciate about Rigsby, WI — especially in comparison to Cheap Thrills — is highlighted really well with Kierie. Regarding Kierie’s handful of appearances in CT, iirc she was relegated to being kind of vapid trailer trash; here, she’s still, for lack of a better word, “trashy”, but also not a bad person for it. She definitely seems to be the best influence in Anna’s direct family life right now, at any rate.
This is also something I noticed with Jenna in chapter 1; it’d be easy to make her a flatly annoying clingy girlfriend, but despite her occasional lapses into teenage obnoxiousness, she doesn’t seem to be a bad person; I keep thinking about how she’s super supportive of Jeordie’s friendship with Beth, when a lazier writer could just make her petty, territorial, and jealous, because That’s How Teenage Girls Be Am I Right Fellas.
I loved and still love CT, but seeing the ways in which the characterization on all the characters, but especially the female ones, has changed and matured is really great.
Almost like that matters more than all the female being conventionally pretty, or something.