@Laura Cushing Is biting Monroe's common technique against non-zombies?

@Laura Cushing that's badass omg lol

@Kathryn Holmes even if that were true before, it can't possibly be true now! Everything you do in life from now on is beautiful. God doesn't care about the details. The universe is a very big place. We're happy to have you here and we're not judging, because we're all tiny specks in a big big universe too. No point in wasting our precious existence on anything but joy! That's what my comic, "Alien Romance," is about. Making do with less than ideal circumstances, finding joy in each other, and embracing life's small gifts. I'll also come after anyone who fails to appreciate that. I've had two people already misread my work and try to turn it into something sour, and I absolutely won't stand for that. Life is very short. Don't be sour. If the sweetness isn't readily apparent, dig for it. It's there! I promise!

@Laura Cushing Poor Monroe! That is quite an adjustment!

"When you were here by yourself," Ren asked idly, sprawled out on a bean bag chair, "did you think about me?" Maurice looked up. "Think about you how? When? You mean while I was in college?" He'd graduated from their hometown high school a year before Ren and won a full scholarship to the state university, but had failed to complete freshman year when Ren finally followed. "Yeah," Ren said. "You called me a few times, and we barely talked, and then you stopped. I thought you forgot about me 'cause you were off having a good time, but now I know you weren't, so why didn't you call me more?" Maurice didn't answer for a long time, and when he finally did, he sounded unsure. "You were done with me. Even before I left, all my senior year in fact, and your junior - you were hanging out with Heck and Pretzel and Doggy, working for your uncle, not talking to me except when you were shopping. I thought you moved on. People move on. I thought I was moving on too. Make all new friends. Maybe meet people who are more like..." His thought tapered off. "I didn't mo-- I didn't intend to move on," Ren insisted. "You were always my big brother. You never stopped being that to me. I rejected UPenn and UCLA just so I could go to school with you... because... I was scared I'd never see you again." Maurice shrugged. "You probably wouldn't've." "When you came home for Christmas that first year, and I saw you, you looked like you were dying," Ren said. Maurice shrugged again. Ren knew what he'd done, then; he'd suspected it before, especially after Maurice had finally told him the story about failing to adjust to campus life after growing up in farm country; about struggling to make friends and keep his grades up, and then giving up but lying to the folks back home about how badly he was doing. Ren often felt like a fish out of water here himself; if he didn't have his core group of friends who let him be himself, he'd be struggling too. "I'll never move on," he assured Maurice. "I'm probably gonna leave at some point, depending on where I get into med school. Call me. Call me a lot. I'll talk. If I don't, you can yell at me and remind me I said this." He grinned in an attempt to lighten the mood, and Maurice turned around and smirked at him.

@Laura Cushing In a clique full of misfits, where everyone is there at least partly because of their appearance, they can accept that standing out doesn't actually make any of them stand out... even if it takes awhile for that to sink in. :)

I actually have two asymmetrical characters. Jon's center of gravity is different from non-paralyzed people, and his legs don't hold weight by themselves but have a habit of sagging in certain ways, and so I have to carefully logic out his poses. Putting him in asymmetrical poses often makes the most sense, and illustrates his mobility limitations. And Fumée (Foomie) the rescued barn cat - I'm enamoured with the concept of characters with facial differences who are ordinary protagonists, not especially good or bad due to their asymmetry, and I could probably do better than a cat, but on the other hand, my readers love the cat. Also, it being a graphic novel, drawing a character with craniofacial differences over and over again might be challenging. Some of my other content is challenging. I'm not against doing challenging things. Honestly, Jon is already challenging to draw; I'm up for more challenges, but I'm not slacking.