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Check and Mate

I have to admit that this story was a little tough in the beginning. I was having a lot of trouble finding a way to lighten Audrey up on the date, and I turned to fellow web stripper, Will Rodriguez of “Mangled Stare”.

After a little back a forth, we’d worked our way to the current resolution, and Will capped it off by suggesting today’s last panel. Thanks for the assist, Will!

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It was important to me in this storyline to do a LITTLE damage control with Audrey as a character. I’d allowed her to get TOO negative and it was reaching the level where her attitude was going from funny to annoying. So showing her actually having a good time where she WASN’T being mean or controlling to Bernard helped, and having her openly thank Dandy was another step in the right direction, I think.

Interrogation

Everyone keeps wondering what happened on Dandy and Maryweather’s date, so I knew this strip was important to put a bit of a cap on the evening for both couples. As for just what Dandy is smiling about in the last panel, I’ll let you all ponder it.

Dandy’s not telling ME either. ;)

Fundamental Changes

I was really struggling with a decent way to elaborate on just what suggestions Dandy made. I knew the suggestions, in and of themselves, weren’t overtly hilarious. As I was beginning drawing this strip, the initial script had Dandy and Maryweather essentially discussing, at length, that they had a good time. I was drawing the first panel when I realized that I could have Maryweather mention Audrey and Bernard’s date and have a more meaty conversation AND get that info out there. The last two panels here are pretty much what I originally wrote, so you can see that my original opening panels weren’t at all essential to the strip.

Sometimes, the answers just pop out at you.