Original Commentary
I don't really know what a cactus smells like. The last panel, originally, read "[Richard and Sinclair]", which is sufficient to summarize it. This time I was able to revise that before Isabel had to draw it. I was listening to "Le Cactus" by Jacques DuTronc at the time - Terrence

Modern Commentary
We've got a few medium-sized cactuses now. I'm not getting close enough to smell them.

Cactus candy is generally citrus-flavored but perhaps less sweet. - Terrence

Original Commentary
The easy part is to have a comic that says "I've got a brilliant idea". The hard part is to come up with one that seems plausible. I really hope that small business owners aren't banging their heads against walls right now. I meant to come up with more scents for the whiteboard there, but real aroma chemical companies seem to have fairly limited product lines as well - Terrence

Modern Commentary
What does a blue apple even smell like? Why does it seem more ridiculous than blue raspberry? - Terrence

Original Commentary
About 80% of Kimberly's speech was written for her conversation with Brisbane. The tone seemed wrong for the situation, especially since they had just made up. However, Dan still backed the old plan so the lecture got repackaged - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Yeah, Kimberly can explain it better to Dan than she can to Brisbane, because Kimberly is just Dan's (kinda) acting boss here as opposed to also being his wife. I think Brisbane was taking it personally a little. - Terrence

Original Commentary
Ok, so "we need to act quickly" isn't included in the previous comic. The phrase was included in an earlier draft, then things got changed. I kept the line because it implies that there is a decent amount of meeting that occurs between yesterday's comic and today's - Terrence

Modern Commentary
That's the thing; if I want the business to be interesting, I need to make it interesting. I can't just write that there's billion dollar deals and famous people and what-have-you. There is nothing inherently interesting about aroma chemicals, no matter what Bath & Body Works says about it. - Terrence