we shall find out tomorrow, i reck’n!

I said “just an artist” because she is BOTH an artist AND a scientist. I didn’t mean to imply that art was a lesser field. (:

Thanx Blue – your comic is spectacular!

I think this many new people, when he’s not expecting any of them, in ‘their’ personal space, would be enough to cause a bit of a breakdown, nevermind non-typical gender norms.

Whoa! Best wishes in your recovery!

I’m not sure how this necessarily offensive. “just an artist”? Sure, there’s a Western cultural coding of scientific and technical mastery as masculine, but I don’t see it as demeaning to project an artistic identity onto someone, regardless of their gender identity. Like, if she *was* a design advisor, that wouldn’t be knock, that would be pretty cool, too.

He also seems…to have grown more subdued. Almost as a parallel to his level of dominance (I don’t know if that’s the right word for it, sorry) in the conversation, he takes up less and less panel space from panel 1, 2 to panel 3, 4. :p

i dunno..

..as jittery as al had been about “blending in,” i’m not sure how he’d feel about his seeming too comfortable with a woman who does not appear to fit in with a hetero-normative presentiment.

but, who knows?
maybe allie will surprise us all!