Original Commentary
Brisbane has a lot of pent-up energy, doesn't he?

Modern Commentary
Again, not cleaned. The dirt is just moved around and smells nice now.
Sorry, I don't have a lot to say about this one. There are a lot of comics and sometimes you just need to let a moment be. - Terrence

Original Commentary
Things have changed... Brisbane has gone from sleeping in her bathroom to an actual bed.

Modern Commentary
That's one of the things that I don't think we went into too deeply, but...throughout the series, Brisbane makes a number of friends. Kimberly does not. This is mostly because Brisbane puts the work in and Kimberly doesn't.
One of the reasons that Emily is able to keep getting back into Kimberly's life is that Kimberly never really made other friends. - Terrence

We tried to give her a pet, but that didn't take.- Isabel

Original Commentary
One of the reasons Kimberly has changed a lot over the course of You Say it First was because I felt that Kimberly had been a bit curt in her relationship with Brisbane... and if she really was making a change, it would have to be a really big change in her personality over all.

Modern Commentary
The time to do that was before comic 13, when Brisbane showed up at her door.
In the original draft, she decided she would just quit her job, move out and start over. Then re-considered in the second panel. I'm pretty sure Isabel rewrote it to this, where it's a possibility instead of a declaration. I'm glad she did.
Kimberly, more than anything, feels comfortable around Brisbane. He's pleasant and easy to get along with. But man it would suck if she tried to move too fast and scared him off. Her track record for meeting guys isn't great. Her track record for meeting people in general isn't great. - Terrence

Original Commentary
People usually tend to remember the good times more often than the bad in their life... things at the theatre weren't as great as Kimberly remembers... or at least not for Brisbane.

Modern Commentary
In Unlike Minerva, we didn't get a lot of Kimberly's interior monologue. You Say it First opens up her thoughts and motivations. We didn't see her trying to sell trinkets to an indifferent public or barely making rent or having to smile at rude customers. But that's not the part that Kimberly is remembering either.
But things have changed and it's natural to be a little wistful thinking about what has been lost.
Life at the theatre wasn't always fun, but it was fun when she was winning. - Terrence

Modern Commentary
There's a lot of emotion for her to process here. The whole pace of things hasn't really give her a chance to do so. She's feeling a lot of things at once here. There aren't a lot of people that Kimberly feels comfortable being vulnerable around.
But there's a difference between knowing that something isn't there any more and accepting that it's gone forever.
Anyhow, this is a moment between them. It's not funny. It's a major plot beat. It's just a moment.- Terrence

Modern Commentary
With newspaper comics, the Sunday comics' storylines are traditionally independent from the weekday comics. This is for a few reasons. Firstly, some papers only carry the Sunday comics (or only carry the weekday comics). Secondly, since Sunday comics were in color, they needed to be completed a few weeks in advance of the dailies, so the color separation could be done in time.
We have neither of those excuses here, but since these comics were a donation goal, we might not know whether to include Sunday comics or not until after the story had been written. So standalone Sunday comics were our best option; writing larger comics and hoping we'd get to use them - or rewriting things at the last minute - wasn't our style.
But also, Kimberly won't stay melancholy forever. I like how she bounces back from the last comic. - Terrence