I Am Horny, Page 4

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At the diner, Rachel sits with Sparrow while an older couple looks on disapprovingly. Bob stands nearby.

COUPLE: Oh.

RACHEL: IM INFECTED.

BOB (thinking): I hope I can repress this memory.

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Sparrow asks if Rachel is okay while holding a Sparrow-branded cup.

SPARROW: Are you okay?

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Rachel asks Sparrow awkwardly.

RACHEL: Umm, Sparrow? Have you ever been worried that you might be a repressed nymphomaniac?

SPARROW: What do you mean?

SPARROW (thinking): A repressed what?

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Rachel explains dramatically, looking stressed.

RACHEL: Like you want to rip the shirt off every male you see and fall upon them like a ravening beast!

I hate those awkward outbursts. If only I’d been born with internal dialog.

Look at all the people in the background of that first panel. As much as I hated drawing crowds, I think they’re some of my more interesting work. Each one of those characters has a weird backstory. Like, that older woman with the hair? As I was drawing her, I was thinking she was a retired chorus girl who’d moved back to the middle of Nowhere to marry her high school sweetheart or something. I never knew when one of these characters was going to keep coming back as a regular, like the Nice Old Women.