What can I tell you, if you haven’t been driven to facepalm by your parents, you must have grown up in an orphanage.

This is the last page of of In the Animal Model, and the first of The Problem of Michigan Part One, presented together due to the quirks of pagination as relates to two page weekly updates.

Lily may not be in favor of annihilating the entire human species, but she hasn’t been completely honest with her girlfriend, either. That’s all right though, ‘cause she knows how to play it cool when she slips up. It was important for me to establish that Lily is still keeping her lycanthropy from Erica. I never wanted to portray Lily as an overtly bad girlfriend exactly, but she really does take Erica for granted. Ginny's a better friend to Erica just like Sam’s a better friend to Erica’s father, while Lily stands in middle of it all, completely certain in her knowledge that she’s too cool to fuck anything up.

The cute little Mask Up logo was planned as a meta-textual timestamp more than anything else, but now Trump’s back in office and RFK Jr’s in charge of vaccination, so it’s better advice than ever.

I had some pithy bon mot about *that* kind of teacher planned, but in the process of formulating my thoughts, I came to realize I was *that* kind of student. Look, just because you’re *that* kind of student, it doesn’t mean you can’t have *that* kind of teacher. Whatever you may have heard, I never stormed out of a college class demanding a refund. That was someone else.

This page was originally written/drawn/whatever as the first on Cold Hands, Warm Heart …or Something, but that story, and the entire narrative for that matter, wasn’t served by Lily being frustrated enough to leave college on the first page, so I saved it for The Problem of Michigan. Maybe I was just too in love with the gutter-inset-panel close-up-of-Lily’s-hand-zoom-out-to-full-panel composition to let the page go, though.