Page Commentary No. 227

Gunwild: I used the wrong onomatopoeia for a French dog barking in a comic book. I'm a hack fraud.

Psu: It was really cute thought it does strain some credulity in our pantsless space comic that the dogs sound different in french than in English.

Gunwild: It's fun to use different countries' noises for animals. Everybody on the internet says "nya" for cats now, don't they?

Psu: We also used "Miaou" once so I think we setup the precedent. And I guess we're nothing if not consistent about our comics quirks. I guess that's the real way to make a believable universe.

Gunwild: Lefyne went really Nagel-white in panel five there, huh?

Psu: I was thinking, what's the complete polar opposite of the Calvin and Hobbes-esque scene in panel 4? We really went all in on rehabilitating Lefyne, huh? I wasn't sure when we had the idea to bring him in just for this but it adds a lot of life to this part of the story. And it's a lot of fun to have a character that actually gets under Cassiopeia's skin.

Gunwild: I mean he's still not a good guy, I don't think Cassiopeia's ever gonna like him, but everybody in this comic at least has reasons for the stuff they do, I hope... you know how impatient I get when characters do things because it's what the plot needs from them, not because it really makes any sense in their own mind.

Psu: That's true. I think... I mention this sometimes after meeting some people in the entertainment sphere. People have this way of turning on a performance, and then turning off when they return to their regular life. Lefyne's regular life is kinda pleasant. I enjoyed how we setup this scene where it's just over the phone. You're not really sure what the other person is doing. Like right now we're talking professionally over the internet chat but I'm just in my pjs and fuzzy socks.

Gunwild: Yeah, I'm sure Cassiopeia assumes that Lefyne is doing something gross, and he's sure not pleasant to talk to. But that's also a speculative fiction thing, trying to imagine how unlike people's lives are from how they appear on your first impression.

Psu: It's also trying to imagine the best in people. Some people are really the jerks they appear on first impression!

Gunwild: Ehh, it's still nice to be nice to dogs.