Original Commentary

Brisbane without his glasses for all three panels! I think this is the first time I've ever drawn him that way in You Say it First (think it happened, at least once, in Unlike Minerva). Terrence made a comment about some people thinking that this story arc might be a collection of one shots, but that is not so. Everything will piece together in some way soon. Kimberly's eyes all blacked out in the last panel was an accident, but I really like how it turned out. I hope you do to. -Isabel

What happened to Brisbane? At the moment, undecided. I'm leaning towards "ate something that disagreed with him" because it can be suitably fast and drastic, or "bad cold" because it can spread for dramatic effect - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Brisbane kinda just slowly became Ms. Taylor's secretary/administrative assistant. I'm sure he didn't get a promotion or a raise or anything.

I kinda wish we had done a story where he's done delivering the mail and is asked to watch the phone for a bit...and that slowly becomes his actual job. - Terrence

Original Commentary

This one could really be the most "one-shot"ish comic in the bunch. Basically yesterday Terrence and myself went to my sister's Middle School graduation and then went out the dinner withe the extended family (never knew Denny's had seating for 11 XD), so Terry didn't have time to work on the script. This comic came to me on walking on the way back to the car through the high school (where the graduation was). It was kind of cool, writing a comic script at the birthplace of Namir Deiter. XD -Isabel

Modern Commentary
The original "script" for this comic was "[Brisbane drinks the medicine]". I'm not sure why I felt this was a necessary story beat.

Anyhow, they stopped getting the syrupy stuff that tastes horrible. Now they get the mix-in powder instead. The powder tastes even worse.

That might make it work better; the placebo effect is a powerful thing and the more "like medicine" a thing is, the stronger that effect is. Injections have a stronger placebo effect than just pills. I'm sure a medicine that tastes bad will do more than medicine that doesn't because of that. - Terrence

Original Commentary

Originally, I was going to have Ms. Taylor address Robert by his last name. It was late and it always takes me a while to give my characters surnames. And I felt that I should avoid calling it a Windows account. I'm quite sure that's what Lemon Technology uses. I just felt I should be as generic as I could. I'm not sure why - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Regarding the previous commentary, his full name is Robert Robertson. I had considered having his first name be Carl, and "Robert" just a nickname.

Kinda glad I didn't; I get Carl and Robert confused often as it is. - Terrence