- This time out my long delay between pages was caused by having to launch a couple of websites that I had recently designed but I also had a moment of reflection when I first sat down to draw this page. When I looked at the thumbnails and script that I had previously sketched out for this entire scene I stepped back and asked myself if I was over-writing the scene. I think that is probably the major key to success in writing and drawing a decent graphic novel – the proper marriage of pictures and words – and I’m still trying to get a good handle on it. When I look back over previous pages I wince at the amount of words that seem to be filing the panels so I decided to try to head myself off at the pass this time. The artist in me needed to stop the writer in me from junking up his drawings with unnecessary words. So, I cut out a lot of the internal dialogue I was going to give to Nathan in these next couple of pages because it wasn’t adding anything that you don’t already get from what you see on the page.

- TRUE STORY: I was Googling “messy living room” to find some ideas for what kind of junk I could litter this place with and the 4th image I came across was an old picture of a friend’s apartment that he had up on his website.

- I originally had the fly on Nathan’s boxers wide open because I thought it would be funny and would add to his disheveled state but it weirdly became the focus of the entire drawing to a point that seemed distracting and possibly distasteful (not that anything graphic was visible). But maybe that was just me being self-conscious about things no one else would care about.