Today’s strip is inspired by a weird little thing that happened to me back in my senior year at high school. I was working at a comic shop and everyone at the store was dressing up to work the shop on Halloween. I put together a particularly creepy grim reaper outfit. Well, I was putting the mask on and fixing my theatrical make up in the bathroom when the bosses young daughter came up behind me to ask what I was dressed as. Without thinking about what I LOOKED like, I turned around ever-so-casually to TELL her.
Of course, she responded appropriately, screamed in stark terror and ran out of the shop and about 3 blocks away before my boss caught up with her. I was SO sure that she was gonna run into traffic and kill herself over my outfit… which filled me with a bizarre mix of terror and pride. Anywho, it seemed like a good twist for a strip.
Also, I should note that today’s strip actually takes place in continuity BEFORE Manny’s “WereBoy” short story in the archives, as will Monday’s strip. Once actual Halloween has passed, the strip will move past that storyline.
