However, looking at the timelines, there is - in my opinion - an error: Known time III puts "Crystal Height's Book Society Midsummer Night's Ball" on a date in "late August/early September". But
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is a definitive event, taking place in the longest night of the year (usually 21st of June, sometimes the 20th or 22nd).
Given that FVs is clearly connected to "To catch/break a Thief" where Trixie tries to use the intel she got in "Nancy Templeton's Day off" and that this story takes place about a month after "Through the Looking Glass on June 23rd (so in late July, early August), there must at least a nearly one year gap between "Nancy Templetons Day Off" and "Family Values".
Hey! First of all thank you for your work, and thank you for making it so visually appealing. I can't comment on the older stories, but regarding this, I actually DID consider the possibility of a year gap in between Nancy's Day Off (NDO) and the start of Family Values (FV) because of the Midsummer date. I don't think there's an issue with it, but I
think I dismissed it because of Chemical Cupid (CC). In NDO Evie says she's got a sample of he new formula, this is 99% CC. This formula is fully complete in FV and To Catch a Thief (TCAT), since almost everyone takes it at some point in the story. With the 1 year gap, it'd mean that it took Evie 1 year to complete the formula, which seems weird, since she's been presented as this super-smart super-villain.
Another thing is that, since subliminal messages happens shortly after Through The Looking Glass (TTLG), because of the clue-board being the same in both comics, it'd mean that Evie has has the Korean student kidnapped for like, a full year? Note: Good catch on the program version, I didn't notice it!
This really aren't the strongest points to either prove or dis-prove that there is a 1 year gap. The weirdest thing for me is that, if there gap exists, we've got basically no info on what happens from summer of year 2 to summer of year 3. We've got a Christmas story with Vi and Barista, a Valentine's Day of Vi and Barista and that's pretty much it (I think, speaking mostly from memory)... Also, would Trixie really wait a year?
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Okay, as of typing this I was re-reading To Break A Thief (TBAT) and Evie says (page 20): "Even hitting the place of a dear friend of mine
last Christmas". This basically confirms that there is no 1-year gap. I won't delete what I wrote previously but there you go. However, if Sleepy-verse Midsummer happens when the IRL midsummer happens, then the dates on the comics are all fucked and make no sense
Speaking of dates, from the latest pages of TBAT we know that:
- The evil tandem had a museum tickling adventure with Nancy around 3 months before NDO (April/May)
- Evie had a drug sleepover with the students 7 months before NDO (November/December of previous year). Is this where they realised they wanted to kidnap country girl? I think she's the one with the green tank-top (page 30)
Hopefully the interrogation gives us more info on the timeline!