This is our first comic. Well, officially, it is. It's also the only comic since working with Hepting that I've engineered the word bubbles. You can see how well that worked out. And all of that took me like three hours. When Hepting told me he could do the bubbles in ten minutes, I just gave him that job.

Hepting and I started working together in advance around May of 2006 after he responded to my plea for an artist partner on my old comic, River Road (which was so so very horrible). I wrote about 15 scripts in advance to create a buffer (you can see how long that lasted). This would be one of the first.

Actually, I wrote 25 or some odd scripts but narrowed out all the really shitty ones (there was one about bees...every panel pretty much had someone yelling "BEES" followed by bees and death...actually, that might not have been a bad script. I dunno).

- Smith

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I think back when we were getting in the rhythm of making comics, we were still figuring out who would have the authority to do what. I think Smith rearranged a couple panels, and altered quite a bit of the dialogue from the original script. These days, if he wants a change, he just lets me know before I send it.

And we both figured that I should be the one to add the word balloons... partly because I would do it in Illustrator, and get it done fairly quick, but mostly because leaving enough space for the word balloons is vital, and it's hard to tell if you're leaving enough room if you're not the one putting them in. These days, I scan my sketches in, and plot out the entire layout in Illustrator, word bubbles included, before I ever do any final inking.

Oh yeah, and the "Don't Let Doctors Molest You In Your Sleep" poster just a little extra detail I added in, cause I thought it would be amusing.

And if I recall correctly, the comic was originally going to end with giant white letters against the black background, saying "IT'S NOT RIGHT". I guess we just thought it would be redundant, or something.

- Hepting