How to Make It Up to a Friend You've Insulted in Your Comic

Ric and I really did have a conversation about how mean I was to him in the comic, but he was in favor of it, while I felt bad. I really did offer him one panel in which I’d write or draw whatever he wanted within the bounds of good taste, and he really wanted the panel to feature him delivering that speech while wearing “magnificent robes.”

The drawing of him in the robe made me so happy that I later invented Rocket Hat and the Emperor of the Moon just to have an excuse to use it again.

Note from Missy: I like the use of a “next week” callout as a final punchline! Though I don’t think it got used many other times, if any.

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Make It Up to a Friend You've Insulted in Your Comic

Ric and I really did have a conversation about how mean I was to him in the comic, but he was in favor of it, while I felt bad. I really did offer him one panel in which I’d write or draw whatever he wanted within the bounds of good taste, and he really wanted the panel to feature him delivering that speech while wearing “magnificent robes.”

The drawing of him in the robe made me so happy that I later invented Rocket Hat and the Emperor of the Moon just to have an excuse to use it again.

Note from Missy: I like the use of a “next week” callout as a final punchline! Though I don’t think it got used many other times, if any.

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Disguise a Yawn

After executing a perfect Double-Calrissian in the previous comic, I go and misquote The Princess Bride in this one. In panel two, I should be saying “What in the world can that be?”

Fun fact: I was feeling sleepy when I sat down to write this commentary. Rereading this comic has not helped matters at all.

Note from Missy: I kept it together until panel 4. That one triggered a yawn. CURSE YOU, SCOTT!

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Disguise a Yawn

After executing a perfect Double-Calrissian in the previous comic, I go and misquote The Princess Bride in this one. In panel two, I should be saying “What in the world can that be?”

Fun fact: I was feeling sleepy when I sat down to write this commentary. Rereading this comic has not helped matters at all.

Note from Missy: I kept it together until panel 4. That one triggered a yawn. CURSE YOU, SCOTT!

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Be Suave

Looking at the first panel again, years after I wrote it, I could have it worded better. People like compliments. Women do as well, in that they are people, but they are not the only people who like compliments, which is what the first panel narration implies.

On the other hand, this comic delivers two panels’ worth of Lando Calrissian humor! I believe that’s what we in the business call a “Double-Calrissian.”

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Be Suave

Looking at the first panel again, years after I wrote it, I could have it worded better. People like compliments. Women do as well, in that they are people, but they are not the only people who like compliments, which is what the first panel narration implies.

On the other hand, this comic delivers two panels’ worth of Lando Calrissian humor! I believe that’s what we in the business call a “Double-Calrissian.”

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Face Life as a Morning Person

I am a morning person. I get it from my father. He was always awake before me and my brothers. Often he’d wake us up with his accordion. He said he was trying to share his love of the accordion, but in retrospect I think he was using aversion therapy to drive the morning-person-ness out of us so that we’d fit in with normal society better. 

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Face Life as a Morning Person

I am a morning person. I get it from my father. He was always awake before me and my brothers. Often he’d wake us up with his accordion. He said he was trying to share his love of the accordion, but in retrospect I think he was using aversion therapy to drive the morning-person-ness out of us so that we’d fit in with normal society better. 

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Listen to Other People's Problems

I think panel two of this comic might have been the one that led me to stop using gradients in the backgrounds. The banding is sort of unacceptable.

It wasn’t unacceptable enough that I stopped using the gradients immediately, or even bothered to fix it in this comic. In my way, I have very high standards. I will only bother to fix the really big mistakes.

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).

How to Listen to Other People's Problems

I think panel two of this comic might have been the one that led me to stop using gradients in the backgrounds. The banding is sort of unacceptable.

It wasn’t unacceptable enough that I stopped using the gradients immediately, or even bothered to fix it in this comic. In my way, I have very high standards. I will only bother to fix the really big mistakes.

You can comment on this comic on Facebook.

As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).