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AUTUMN SPRING - THE WEB COMIC SERIES
based on characters and situations created for the novel Autumn Spring

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Episode 19 (Season 2, Episode 6) - "Another Secondary Interlude"

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Had to take this down and re-up it due to duplicated texts in two adjacent panels. Sorry 'bout that.

The gentleman to whom Kimmy is talking is Bill Howe, her direct boss (she's his office assistant) and one of the three senior partners at the Middleton law firm of DCH Associates PA (he's the "H"). The only time you've seen him before in Autumn Spring is briefly during the conference room scene in Season One's "The Competition." He's only been mentioned a few times since, so given the subject nature of this particular episode I thought it was high time he got not only to come back, but to actually do a full scene this time around - even if it's a short one. We know he married a young woman named Tina not long before the start of the series, and that the two met while she was working at DCH as their receptionist. Brandy got her initial job at DCH as their fill-in receptionist after Tina Howe was forced to take maternity leave, since she had become pregnant after the honeymoon. It is implied (although not stated) that Tina decided to go ahead and quit her job in order to stay at home to raise her and Bill's child. That's how Brandy's job became a permanent one. Bill Howe's model is based on that of Mikhail the hostage from Valve's CounterStrike: Source.

Kimmy was born in South Korea and emigrated to the United States as soon as possible after she graduated high school and became an adult legally. It wasn't because she was escaping an arranged marriage, as Ted and Eric once mistakenly assumed. The truth was that Kimmy wanted both to live in the land where her father was born and to get a college education and work where she felt the opportunities were greater, as we learned back in Season One. Her father was in the U.S. Army and assigned to the DMZ between North and South Korea, and he met and eventually married Kimmy's mother during that time. Kimmy holds dual citizenship because of this, and she has native fluency in both Korean and English given her upbringing. Her father remained in South Korea after his discharge because Kimmy was still young and in school, and he eventually decided to stay there even after Kimmy grew up and expressed her desire to go to the States. She still keeps in touch with her parents on a regular basis.

The unusual topic of Bill and Kimmy's conversation is based on one I overheard at work not long ago among some of the younger employees in my work area. I won't say yea or nay either way on how true it is, but I thought the topic was unusual enough to serve as good source material for my own fiction. I added the bit about the mail order bride encounter - which is an industry that is still going strong today, BTW, although it has evolved considerably and taken advantage of modern technology as the decades have passed. 'Nuff said there (wink)

Description
AUTUMN SPRING - THE WEB COMIC SERIES
based on characters and situations created for the novel Autumn Spring

copyright © 2020, all rights reserved

Episode 19 (Season 2, Episode 6) - "Another Secondary Interlude"

PREV: www.deviantart.com/digitalexpl…

FIRST: www.deviantart.com/digitalexpl…

NEXT: www.deviantart.com/digitalexpl…

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COMMENTS

Had to take this down and re-up it due to duplicated texts in two adjacent panels. Sorry 'bout that.

The gentleman to whom Kimmy is talking is Bill Howe, her direct boss (she's his office assistant) and one of the three senior partners at the Middleton law firm of DCH Associates PA (he's the "H"). The only time you've seen him before in Autumn Spring is briefly during the conference room scene in Season One's "The Competition." He's only been mentioned a few times since, so given the subject nature of this particular episode I thought it was high time he got not only to come back, but to actually do a full scene this time around - even if it's a short one. We know he married a young woman named Tina not long before the start of the series, and that the two met while she was working at DCH as their receptionist. Brandy got her initial job at DCH as their fill-in receptionist after Tina Howe was forced to take maternity leave, since she had become pregnant after the honeymoon. It is implied (although not stated) that Tina decided to go ahead and quit her job in order to stay at home to raise her and Bill's child. That's how Brandy's job became a permanent one. Bill Howe's model is based on that of Mikhail the hostage from Valve's CounterStrike: Source.

Kimmy was born in South Korea and emigrated to the United States as soon as possible after she graduated high school and became an adult legally. It wasn't because she was escaping an arranged marriage, as Ted and Eric once mistakenly assumed. The truth was that Kimmy wanted both to live in the land where her father was born and to get a college education and work where she felt the opportunities were greater, as we learned back in Season One. Her father was in the U.S. Army and assigned to the DMZ between North and South Korea, and he met and eventually married Kimmy's mother during that time. Kimmy holds dual citizenship because of this, and she has native fluency in both Korean and English given her upbringing. Her father remained in South Korea after his discharge because Kimmy was still young and in school, and he eventually decided to stay there even after Kimmy grew up and expressed her desire to go to the States. She still keeps in touch with her parents on a regular basis.

The unusual topic of Bill and Kimmy's conversation is based on one I overheard at work not long ago among some of the younger employees in my work area. I won't say yea or nay either way on how true it is, but I thought the topic was unusual enough to serve as good source material for my own fiction. I added the bit about the mail order bride encounter - which is an industry that is still going strong today, BTW, although it has evolved considerably and taken advantage of modern technology as the decades have passed. 'Nuff said there (wink)