This scene was inspired by my visits with Flo, which also took place in Philadelphia, and where she then resided had a similar buzzer-lock system. Flo obviously never played this kind of game with me, but the power dynamics of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Joel is seemingly ready to conclude his part in the story by slipping into the time-honored role of “guy who knows a guy.” But as it turns out, he won’t quite have the last word in this interaction. I think […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think “Tron’d into the Matrix” was a Flo bit, and I sort of hope it is, because that’d make me feel less self-congratulatory about how much I love it. It’s totally true to Shanna’s basic practice of getting this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My favorite part here, easily, is panel 2, where Joel weighs the reasons for caution I mentioned on the last page against his natural curiosity and compassion, and decides to reach out before Shanna slips away. It’s one of those […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The larger plot here means I’m on Shanna’s side, of course (Right that wrong! Right that wrong!), and I don’t mind when she deploys a little guilt bomb in panel 5. But I definitely get where Joel’s coming from. He […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
