Who knew the Sunny Soleil Society was owned by one person!?! Well, I suppose it could be. This is a new wrinkle in the story. I reckon Madam Drama showed up, after all. It’s not often we get to see a new character. Victoria Vex is certainly correctly named.

I’m guessing this cartoonish Victoria Vex symbolizes the popular perception of HOAs as authoritative and unsympathetic. Remember that the Sunny Soleil Society was originally defined in this strip (see 4/27/21) as managing the HOA for the local Lost Forest village. Violet is the overseer of the company. Looking back, Violet, herself, was more imperious and decidedly more capably “hands-on” than she appears these days (see 4/30/21).

Art Dept. As in most comic strips, the main characters get refined or redefined over time. It is a natural evolution. For example, here is what the Trail family originally looked like back in an early publicity drawing from late 2020 (click the image to see better details):

These are not quite the cartoonish characters they appear as these days, with the possible exception of Doc Davis. Unfortunately, these characterizations did not last very long.