I’m always a little nervous when I do another Tom – Sarah comic, because there is not much ‘funny business’ to be had when writing this developing romance. There is just so much juice there, I could probably write a seperate graphic novel with all this. It might be because I’m used to writing a lot of dialog and character development for my games. Despite that, I always try to work in something that will make you smile, like Alphonse not agreeing with Tom ‘monopolyzing’ Sarah.

I had planned to make this trip two bars so I could fit all this information in without it getting crowded. But I decided to cut it down to one bar. And I think it’s a good thing, because it forced me to get creative with the panels to maintain the standard width. The 4th panel ‘bleeding’ off-canvas was literally a last-minute touch to make it pop out a little more.