If you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing, when I'm asked, I don't have to lie

With this, I'm two thirds through issue #7.

I think I did an issue, maybe #3, where I never showed anyone in Abby's bookstore. After that, I've tried to make sure she has a customer or two, just so we know that her store is relatively solvent. Plus, it gives me the opportunity to draw new/background characters, and they're pretty fun to design.

After the extended Christmas scenes, I'm really putting myself through my paces with the ladies' clothes, too. I know what guys wear. I can just go through my closet and imagine the stuff without all the Jack Skellington and Superman images on it. Women are different, so I troll all sorts of websites and notice ladies' outfits whenever I'm out. Complicating my process is that Abby and Charlotte dress differently… at least if I'm doing my job right. Charlotte's clothes are a little younger and a little more flirty than Abby's.

So, I've done a bunch of scenes that take place over a series of days, and I have to keep coming up with new outfits. And, the story is taking place in winter mostly in the bookstore, so you're essentially pulling the same type of outfits.

Okay, enough complaining. This page has one of my favorite jokes in it. Sorry to taunt you so, since I won't post it, but it's not like you have to buy this one, right? Just go to your local comic shop on May 3rd.