Shifting Roommates: Getting His Attention (1 of 3)

Shifting Roommates: Getting His Attention (1 of 3) is the first episode of the Shifting Roommates: Getting His Attention animation series. It was released on July 7, 2023.
== Synopsis ==
“In the original Shifting Roommates comic, there was a subplot that involved Jamie having an affair with her boss Goldberg before she and Scott became a couple. I thought that after all these years it would be fun to bring this idea back as a canon addition to Shifting Roommates in the form of an animated miniseries.” 
=== Additional Info ===
This takes place after Jamie became a full woman, but before she and Scott became a couple. I think somewhere in the page range of the low 300’s?
As a little behind the scenes regarding this animation, this might set the record for how long a finished animation has sat around. It was completed in November 2021, 20 months ago! The main reason was because we were waiting for our two most recent miniseries, Wild West Manhunt and Christmas Wishes, to complete before starting this miniseries.
== Production ==
* Producer: Sam Mokler
* Writer: Paul Sell
* Animator: Tsimira
* Artists: Gabriel Dolci, Sam Mokler
* Lead Animator: Mimi Alves
=== Cast ===
* Jamie – Lyra VO
* Goldberg – BJ Hunter
* Scott – Kiba Walker
* Nancy – Morgan Laure
== Plot ==
Jamie Cummings is at her job walking down the hallway thinking how she's come to further embrace recently becoming a woman but at the same time is a bit sad to be single. While she knows her and Scott have so much in common, he is still dating Barbera and she wishes she could find another man to be with. She briefly talks with her co-worker Nancy who mentions how her boyfriend recently got her band tickets which seems to make Jamie a bit more jealous. Nancy mentions how Jamie has applied for an assistant manager position at the company and how their boss Henry Goldberg has recently gone through a divorce. Jamie thinks how she may be able to use that to her advantage and both satisfy her urges and desire for a man and possibly land the promotion as well. 
Jamie enters Goldberg's office and with a bit of mild flirting and showing some extra cleavage she is quick to enrapture him and get him flirting back. Goldberg admires her and her work ethic and while he at first tries to keep things professional and mentions how she does show promise as a possible manger candidate he is quick to get more interested in her romantically after she continues to flirt and even plays footsy with him a bit. Finally, the two of them agree to a dinner date to further "discuss their business arrangement". While Jamie does still wish Scott could be more direct with his feelings, she becomes eager to try things out with Goldberg. 
Later that night Jamie gets ready and puts on a sexy red dress. She is happy to have fully embraced her feminine side after all the initial drama of transforming. After she is fully dressed Scott walks in to talk with her and is in awe of how she looks in the dress. Jamie teases him a bit saying how she'll have to tell Barbera where she got it from and asks how the two of them are doing. Scott admits that he's seeing more and more how she and him have very little in common but he's also surprised that Jamie has entered the dating scene again so soon, especially with her own boss. Jamie teases him a bit more knowing how its getting to him. Goldberg arrives soon after and Scott greets him at the door as Jamie finishes getting ready. Scott and Goldberg talk briefly and while Scott remains polite about the two of them going out, he is clearly very jealous. Jamie enjoys the fact he's jealous and a bit upset and thinks to herself how he could have had her already if he'd just end things with Barbera. The couple then heads out to dinner wishing Scott a good night. Scott bids them goodbye but is clearly still Jealous. 
== Gallery ==
Shifting-Roommates-Getting-His-Attention-1-Preview.jpg|Early preview image of the animation before it was initially postponed
== Trivia ==
* This animation was initially announced to be released on August 27, 2022, but was later postponed indefinitely. This animation was then announced to be released on July 7, 2023, almost a year after.
** The original synopsis is as follows: “The original Shifting Roommates comic was originally going to have a subplot involving Jamie and Goldberg, but this was cut for time. Now this ‘lost chapter’ of Shifting Roommates is being brought to life in animated form. This takes place after Jamie became a full woman, but before she hooked up with Scott.”
*This Animation would likely take place around page 242 or 250 at some point shortly after Jamie came out as Bisexual to Scott but before she came home drunk and confessed her feelings for him. 
*Jamie appears with her trademark sapphire necklace however in the comic she would not have received it until later when she reunited with her parents and came home to Scott who had already broken up with Barbera.