Original Commentary

So is that Richard? Is that Sinclair? I doubt she cares. The last part of... whoever the heck that is with Kimberly in panel one was added after Terrence and I decided what to name this arc (more Terrence than me. He came up with it, wasn't sure about it, but I encouraged him to go with it). That's all I can say about this one... sorry. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
It's a phone call. It could be anybody on the other end!

C'mon, past Terrence. Try to start things with a bit more action than that... - Terrence

Original Commentary

Man- what did comics and cartoons do for rabbits on the phone before? I'm sure some used those really old fashioned phones, the type that have the part of talk in attached to the phone with the part for the ear on it's own- or was that just an invention of Tex Avery and his lot? That one is way past my time. Besides, I'm sure specialized equipment like that would be expensive and unless it's required by law, I highly doubt Miz Taylor would be shelling out the money for them. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
This has to have been inspired by something that happened to me when I was working at a call center. I was the guy on the other end of the line, of course. - Terrence

Original Commentary

Panel two's Kimberly had some serious had some serious problems... in the end I redrew virtually everything from the neck down digitally. Hopefully you can't tell. -Isabel

That's a slightly paraphrased Aqua Teen Hunger Force quote in the middle panel. When they pitched it to the networks, the network insisted that the lead characters fight crime. They do. Kinda. For two episodes. In the third episode, a crime happens and Frylock tells Carl "We don't do that any more. That wasn't making us a whole lot of money." - Terrence

Modern Commentary
This was the ten year anniversary of Unlike Minerva, so we've got this throwback as the year's Big Storyline - Terrence

Original Commentary

I actually ended up sketching this comic out before panel three's dialogue had been written. I'm trying to work two comics a day (but in the end, due to other work I never really get ahead ><) and at the time Terrence only had most of this draft finished up. Terrence had told me Kimberly was exasperated by the conversation, which was why she's touching her head. However, when I got the script, she just sounded pissed off, which didn't really work for her original facial movements- which meant more redrawing for me. In it's own way, it works... not as well as it could have if he had the script written and sent to me on time for a nice change of pace, but it works. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
You don't have to read Unlike Minerva. It's kinda rough in places. We explain what all this means in a few days.

I'm not going to try hard to talk anybody out of it, but it was my first comic and I learned as I went - Terrence

Original Commentary

I tweaked this comic a bit for Terrence (I did ask him first). I added in Kimberly's "just" to panel one... giving her a +5 bonus to smugness... I also added a recap of what the guy over the phone was asking for to panel one and the extra fan girling to phone-boy in panel two. Sets him up for a slightly higher fall. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
We don't see the guy on the other end of the phone call ever, because it doesn't matter who he is. Just what he sets in motion.

Also, if there's several comics in a row that just feature one character (usually on the phone) it's probably because I was really late with scripts and needed to get Isabel something that was fast to draw. - Terrence

Original Commentary

Back when Terrence was writing this one out, he asked me to pick between two lines: "I've seen his act before so that one would be harder" or "Which was the first option again?". I performed the second so away I went, completing the comic, letters and all, and sent it to Terrence to look at it. He was disappointed because he thought he had decided to go with a combination of the two lines. If he did, he never told me (and he didn't alter the script file). Ah well, water under the bridge...

In panel one, I decided to cut Richard's line in half and give half of it to his brother. Terrence had said the two "I can't believe" were supposed to show parallelism. I though this way did it two, but flowed less chunky and almost like a set-up joke.-Isabel

Modern Commentary
Past Terrence was mildly miffed that Isabel made changes to the script. This is because Past Terrence could be a bit egotistical and insist that doing things his own way was the best.

Past Terrence was wrong. The changes in panels 1 and 3 work a lot better. Things flow. The punchline has punch. It's improved all around - Terrence

Original Commentary

I added a little clarity to panel four in Richard's line (yeah, that's Richard, I don't think it was ever mentioned because Kimberly would not be able to tell the two apart confidently enough to mention it), to mention why a play bill may help.

You may have noticed the number of this chapter's comics keeps jumping... at first it was seven, then 14 and now 21. Basically Terrence had originally written seven comics, but I mentioned it did really feel like a "the end", so we were planning on writing seven more, but in the end we wrote fourteen more, a week more than planned. But, this arc is all written out, so the number won't get any higher. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
Kimberly also printed the playbills.

But yeah, it's kind of the difference between "I was in a real band with (famous musician)" vs "I went to a guitar camp and celebrity guest (famous musician) and I were both part of the group jam at the end".

I mean, I'm glad you had a good time at guitar camp but that doesn't make you a member of (famous musician's actual band). - Terrence