Original Commentary

Brisbane doesn't have much of a toolset, just a few screwdrivers, pliers, wrench. Nothing specialized. He has to borrow a soldering iron and allen wrench when he needs it. A torx screwdriver has a star-shaped head and is used when people don't really want things unscrewed by the wrong folks.

I actually had to get a torx screwdriver a few weeks ago. A power supply died on my computer, so I had to swap it out. After about two hours of trying to force it the torx screws with a phillips-head screwdriver and a large amount of force - it works, sometimes, I unscrewed half of the screws and badly stripped the other half - I broke down and bought one. Cost me about six dollars, worth every penny to have a T-10 handy when I need one - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Kimberly likes Scrabble, but more than that, she likes winning.

And she's better than Brisbane is at Scrabble.- Isabel

Original Commentary

Isabel drew this comic in a sketchbook, while I was out getting a haircut. All three panels are on separate pages. The comic came out really well. I'm not so sure how the haircut will turn out. We'll see about that tomorrow morning. Haircuts never look the same in the morning as they do when you leave the barbershop. And yes, Kimberly needs more friends. I've to give Brisbane a secondary cast (Robert, Jake, Jane, etc). Kimberly has, well, she has Emily and Richard & Sinclair. None of those really count as people you could hang out with. Anyhow, Isabel got the sketchbook in Florida but didn't use it until after we moved - Terrence

Modern Commentary
She could've called Richard and Sinclair. They'll show up for cake-related events.
Of course, the downside to inviting Richard and Sinclair is, as Kimberly will tell you, that Richard and Sinclair will probably show up. - Isabel

Original Commentary

I was going to call it the Hippedown Arms Repair Society, but Isabel said it was too understated. So it's the Mystic Order of the Hippedown Arms Repair Society. There's a banner that says so in the first panel, but it got covered by text. I didn't intend for the lounge guys to dictators like this, but when I started writing, it just had to happen that way. It couldn't have happened any other way - Terrence

Modern Commentary
The takeover was pretty much "The three of us took a vote while you weren't here and we decided we're in charge now."

Brisbane went with it because he's kind of non-confrontational and because they didn't have anywhere else they could meet to hang out. - Terrence

Original Commentary

It's a one-panel comic because we felt that it brought out the monotony of the situation. Anyhow, a heel is the "bad guy" in the plots. Like Hollywood Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, or The Undertaker. The wrestling federations are, I believe, called "promotions", officially, but I thought the term would confuse people. And it's not unusual for wrestlers to have different characters in different promotions (or even within the same one). I fondly remember watching WWF wrestling, you know, back when they were the WWF. I should mention right now that my brother once sold a pair of camouflage pants to Sergeant Slaughter - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Wrestlers having to change their ring name is pretty much a WWF/WWE thing. That's because that way they own the name (and its merchandising rights).

Most other promotions, wrestlers just keep using the names they've been using on the independent scene. If you're paying a guy who's made himself (or herself) well-known, then you may as well use that to your advantage.

I was going to mention how John Cena is one of the few wrestlers to use his real name and, as such, comes out ahead on things. That would be fortunate for him, since he was one of the most popular wrestler of the 2000s. Turns out that WWE owns the rights to his name, which really doesn't seem right to me, but he knows his own legal situation better than I do. - Terrence

Original Commentary

I had written a comic where the President told Robert that he couldn't bring anything that needed fixing, or even bring in his tools. It involved some logic that tried to be circular, but wound up just being mediocre logic. It didn't work. I should have had Robert say something like "You're 90 degrees short of circular logic there". But if you look at the lounge guys' actual motivations, I think casserole is much more in character - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Yeah, looking at that joke in the first panel it's no wonder that Brisbane is a failed comedian. You can tell that Robert and David are his friends because they just leave it there and pretend he said something reasonable.

I'm assuming that the Lounge Guys took the casserole over to the President's apartment. Or maybe just a few chairs they had set up in the hallway. - Terrence

Original Commentary

I had considered writing an arc developing Kimberly's business contacts, as far back as during Unlike Minerva. It never happened for a variety of reasons. Mainly, they didn't need to be there. I had written up an ex-boyfriend/business contact who she owed money to. He didn't fit into the main storyline, so his character was never developed further than "an ex-boyfriend/business contact who she owed money to", so he wasn't even in the running to be introduced - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Kimberly wants friends but doesn't want to meet people or maintain existing friendships. That's why she's here hanging out with her landlady/mother-figure.

But that's the difference. Brisbane makes friends at work. Kimberly makes work friends.- Terrence