Original Commentary
We've been talking about adding old Dr. Marvello into this arc since the very beginning, before any part of the script was written. We knew what part in all this he would play, but we didn't quite know where. We had originally planned on having Dr.M show up in this comic, but decided against it. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
The most surprising thing about all this is that Dr. Marvello actually has a real doctorate.

Also, Kimberly wasn't a performer. Why was he photographing her? Apart from because he's kind of a creep - Terrence

Original Commentary
Isabel made a few changes to this when she was lettering it - for a start, she changed it to a photo album. I had the photos in a box. Why? Because I forgot people put photos in albums and I was going to have Kimberly flipping through them like records - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Dr. Marvello is named after a Klaatu song. The song is about a mystical sex/relationship therapist.

The character is some guy in a culturally-inappropriate turban who keeps shouting about how he has learned the secrets of oriental magic. That kind of thing was common back in the actual vaudeville days but there's a lot of stuff that has fortunately been left in the past. His act is mostly juggling.

He didn't cut Brisbane on purpose but he didn't go out of his way to include him. In his defense, Brisbane was an untalented rando who showed up towards the end and took a few months off- Terrence

Original Commentary
Remember back a few days ago when I mentioned an idea I had pitched (Terrence provided the actual script- he had to explain what "marking cards" was to me) for a comic set in the photo room that Terrence had not used? Well, here it is. I'm glad I didn't talk about it back then. The photo is in black and white (or rather, grayscale) because all the other photos on the walls are. I figure Dr.M liked to get real artsy with his photography "skills".-Isabel

Modern Commentary
Dr. Marvello was going to show up in the reunion but I didn't have anything for him.

I had half a comic where he introduces himself and explains that he took the photos secretly because "If you put a camera in front of performers, they start performing."

Brisbane offers to beat him up but Kimberly says she'll handle it and/or that she doesn't know if she should be flattered or get a restraining order - Terrence