Dispatches from Stepford

A lot of these are scrappy and unfinished but yknow what? As long as I have the basic concept down I honestly don’t fucking care anymore lmao

  I don’t remember when I first drew these up but it was somewhere around 2024 after I’d finished writing Welcome to Stepford. The story itself isn’t set in the 70’s, I’m aware, but I really wanted to lean into the aspect of the shitty archaic legacy of the Men’s Association turning free-willed women into submissive housewives for over 50 years, whether it’s through the kill-and-replace method from the original or my half-baked brainwashing bullshit :) I was kind of going for a more gaudy and tacky vintage vibe, like imagine wall-to-wall carpeted bathrooms, mustard-yellow kitchens, “(You’re) Having My Baby” by Paul Anka, bad toupees, mass-produced easy listening compilations, old Sears catalogues. cheesy game shows, The Dating Game, etc.

Maybe Kim Eberhart’s B&B would be named Ingalls something? After her mom’s maiden name. Every few months or so I keep loading up WriterSolo to revise the script, but I feel like I did the last major one and I’m happy to just leave it where it is. Another thing I’m not totally happy with is the stage names for two of Rachel’s bandmates, Mel and Cat. I think Cindy Chaos would sound better for Cat, but none of these characters are referred to with their stage names anywhere in the script which I’ll admit is pretty dumb of me!!! So just pretend I did all that.