Reviewer: Jesse Baker
Story Title: Goodbye
Written by: Terry Moore
Penciled by: Terry Moore
Inked by: NA
Colored by: Hi-Fi Colour Design
Lettered by: NS
Editor: NA
Publisher: Abstract Studios
The long awaited wedding of Brad and Francine is here and Katchoo is not too thrilled. So like most scorned lovers, Katchoo decides to storm the chapel and whisk Francine away. Meanwhile Katchoo has her own wedding problems complicating things for her. The dress shop sent Francine the wrong wedding dress to wear and Francine’s father, who abandoned the family years earlier in order to sleep around with barely legal jailbait, has suddenly shown up out of the blue to watch his daughter get married. So when Katchoo shows up, the entire evening goes to hell in a handbasket.
Affter Brad’s brother Griffen recognizes Katchoo as “Baby June” (Katchoo’s call-girl alias), Katchoo makes her pressence known and punches Griffin in the face. She then approaches Francine’s mother and estrange father and demands to see Francine. Francine’s mom stops Katchoo and tells Katchoo the obvious (that Katchoo is no good for Francine do to the secrets and the constant running away from her to go play mobster with her fellow lesbian friends). But she quickly loses her case by blaming Katchoo for Francine’s miscarriage. This causes Katchoo to threaten to reveal an newly introduced secret about Francine’s mother. If she doesn’t move out of her way, she will make public that Mrs. Peters did some naughty modelling in her youth under the name of “Mary Midnight” and that unless she moves, Katchoo will reveal “Mary Midnight’s” real identity to not only her family but also to the legion of “Mary Midnight” fans that still worship her on the internet.
Finally we see Katchoo and Francine met and have a “tender” scene where Francine tells Katchoo that she has chosen Brad over Katchoo. And by “tender” I mean apathetic as Terry Moore has done this numerous times in the past like clockwork. The tearing apart and and reuniting of Katchoo and Francine has become such a farce at this point and even though Terry has been building up towards this moment for the past six years, the constant baiting and switching (especially the gratuitous use of the cosmic reset button last year) has utterly killed the romantic tension between the two for good.
