Once again, I am extremely pleased with the way this comic came out. The triforce background behind D. Narrator looks awesome, that pic of Lucia's sister (which was really hard to find, by the way) looks great, and the dialogue flows quite nicely.

Ok, I've got to tell you guys this story...

Last year I enrolled in a "politics of ethnicity and gender" class - which you must never take because it will ruin your life, GPA! - and I had to write an essay on "a time when not knowing someone's gender affected my life in some way." Now I know right now you're probably saying "uhh..." and I could not agree with you more!

Now, the only example I could think of was this one time when I went into a video game store with Eric and Sam (and Clint might have been there too, I can't remember), and there's this guy leaning over the counter. He has long hair, and because of the way he's leaning I can't see his chest or his Adam's apple so...yup, you guessed it, I thought he was a girl.

So the whole essay basically said: "yo! This one time my homies and I went into this hole-in-the-wall game shop, and there was this thing leaning over the counter. I thought it was a girl, but it turned out to be a guy, and then Sam laughed at me." I got a B.

So now you're probably thinking "you wrote that and got a B!?" And...what do want? The class was stupid!

Then comes the final exam question: "ramble on for the length of a final exam (which is conveniently unspecified) about how discrimination has played a role in your life." Now, the honest answer is "it hasn't because I'm not a racist, and I pay so little attention I probably wouldn't know if I, myself, was being discriminated against," but I didn't think actually writing that would get me anywhere, so I had to come up with something else...

So my whole final exam was about how I went from not caring that I was the majority race at my sophomore school to not caring that I wasn't the majority race at my junior/senior school (big, life-changing transition there...). Then I threw in something in about how one of my Japanese friends had a Chinese girlfriend, and how that didn't bother anyone (except for one guy, but no one really values his opinion, so whatever). The professor gave me a C, revenge will be mine...

Now, here's what I should have written: "oh yes, all my life I've had a friend - who doesn't exist will remain nameless - who is venomously racist against <insert professor's race here> people. There were several occasions during which Krunal and I had to apply shock treatment to keep him from lashing out against <insert professor's race again> people. Our childhoods were tumultuous at best, and I often wonder how different and/or more well adjusted Krunal and I might be today if we didn't have to deal with this friend's groundless hatred all of our lives... <drip water on the paper here so it looks like you started crying>" No way I get less than 700% on that...

I dunno, having a class that requires participants to have been discriminated against - or, at least, to have had lives shaped by discrimination - in order to pass just seems wrong to me...

In closing, NEVER TAKE THAT CLASS!!!!

Enjoy,

Jonathan R. Gilbert
Eric LeBlanc
Krunal Sheth