(no subject)
KEVIN: “Yeah. And THEN there was Carly. I met her through a mutual friend. Two weeks after we started dating she decided to let me in on the fact that she was into dressing like a cartoon fox and engaging in ‘cuddle orgies’ with other, similarly clad participants.”
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Oh my God, she was a ‘Furry’.”
KEVIN: “She was a ‘Furry’. She actually convinced me to dress in a tiger costume and go to one of these ‘events’, but I just felt like I was getting jerked off by the mascot for a high school football team.”
PAGE TWENTY: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “You have NOT had much luck in the dating scene.”
KEVIN: “No. No, I have not.”
BAILEY: “God…I can’t believe I’m going to be single again. I don’t want to have to date again. I hate dating.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Then why don’t you and Chuck try to work it out?”
BAILEY: “Charles. We have. We’ve done the therapy thing, the spending time apart thing, the hypnosis thing…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “Hypnosis?”
BAILEY: “His idea. None of it worked, though. The sad fact is that we just don’t feel the same way for each other. It happens.”
Panel 4:
KEVIN: “Trouble in the sack?”
BAILEY: “I’m not going to answer that.”
KEVIN: “You just did. It always starts there.”
PAGE TWENTY-ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1: Kevin coyly looks at her, eyebrow raised.
BAILEY: “No it doesn’t. We never had any trouble in the sex department.”
KEVIN: “You can say THAT again.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Well, it’s either that or money issues.”
BAILEY: “What about communication issues?”
KEVIN: “Sure, okay, communications issues…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “…but it always starts with trouble in the bedroom.”
BAILEY: “It’s the other way around, Kevin. How can you get intimate with someone you can’t communicate with?
KEVIN: “I do it all the time.”
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Well, see? That’s the difference between you and me. And that’s PROBABLY why you haven’t had a decent relationship since we broke up.”
KEVIN: “That’s not the reason. I already told you the reason.”
PAGE TWENTY-ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
KEVIN: “It’s true. I never stopped loving you. Not for one second…I’ve tried to drink you away…Tried to fuck you out of my mind…tried therapy…tried to immerse myself in my work…tried to find new hobbies and new distractions. None of it worked. At least not yet.”
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “I don’t know what to say. Ten years is a long time to hold a torch for someone, Kevin.”
KEVIN: “Yeah. It is. But I’m still holding it. I’m sorry if it makes you uncomfortable.”
Panel 3: Silent. She looks out of her window.
Panel 4: she looks at him and he smiles.
BAILEY: “I have to pee.”
END BOOK 1
TWO OF US
Book Two: “Burning Matches”
PAGE ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1: Exterior shot of a roadside diner. Kevin’s car is in the parking lot. It is dusk.
TEXT BOX: “Diner coffee is the best coffee…”
Panel 2: Kevin and Bailey sitting in a diner booth. This will be the setting of the entire issue. Bailey is holding a
cup of coffee, Kevin is looking at a map.
BAILEY: “…I’m not sure why that is, but it’s true.”
KEVIN: “We should hit the halfway mark in another hour-or so…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “…I figure we can find a motel and get a few hours of sleep. Then we can hit the road again early tomorrow and we should be in Austin by seven-ish.”
BAILEY: “Works for me.”
Panel 4: Kevin folds the map.
BAILEY: “Are you nervous at all? About meeting him?”
KEVIN: “Of course I am.”
PAGE TWO: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “You haven’t said anything.”
KEVIN: “I’m trying to put it out of my mind until we get there. No use getting into a panic.”
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “I guess. I just can’t seem to stop thinking about it. What he may look like now…what he enjoys…is he into sports or art…is he good at math or writing…all that stuff.”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “We’ll find all that out when we get there. Relax.”
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Do you think he resents us?”
KEVIN: “He asked us to come see him. If he resented us, he wouldn’t want to see us.”
PAGE THREE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “What if he just wants to tell us how much he hates us?”
KEVIN: “I doubt that. The kid’s just curious about -“
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “And his PARENTS, God…What are his parents going to think when they meet us?”
Panel 3: Kevin is silent, looking away for a moment.
Panel 4: He picks up his coffee, nonchalantly.
KEVIN: “The seem like good people. I mean I haven’t talked to them all that much but they seem okay.”
BAILEY: “What were you going to say just then?”
PAGE FOUR: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
KEVIN: “When?”
BAILEY: “Just before. I said I wonder what his parents are going to think and it looked like you were going to say something.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Hmm…I don’t remember.”
BAILEY: “
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Oh my God, she was a ‘Furry’.”
KEVIN: “She was a ‘Furry’. She actually convinced me to dress in a tiger costume and go to one of these ‘events’, but I just felt like I was getting jerked off by the mascot for a high school football team.”
PAGE TWENTY: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “You have NOT had much luck in the dating scene.”
KEVIN: “No. No, I have not.”
BAILEY: “God…I can’t believe I’m going to be single again. I don’t want to have to date again. I hate dating.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Then why don’t you and Chuck try to work it out?”
BAILEY: “Charles. We have. We’ve done the therapy thing, the spending time apart thing, the hypnosis thing…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “Hypnosis?”
BAILEY: “His idea. None of it worked, though. The sad fact is that we just don’t feel the same way for each other. It happens.”
Panel 4:
KEVIN: “Trouble in the sack?”
BAILEY: “I’m not going to answer that.”
KEVIN: “You just did. It always starts there.”
PAGE TWENTY-ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1: Kevin coyly looks at her, eyebrow raised.
BAILEY: “No it doesn’t. We never had any trouble in the sex department.”
KEVIN: “You can say THAT again.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Well, it’s either that or money issues.”
BAILEY: “What about communication issues?”
KEVIN: “Sure, okay, communications issues…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “…but it always starts with trouble in the bedroom.”
BAILEY: “It’s the other way around, Kevin. How can you get intimate with someone you can’t communicate with?
KEVIN: “I do it all the time.”
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Well, see? That’s the difference between you and me. And that’s PROBABLY why you haven’t had a decent relationship since we broke up.”
KEVIN: “That’s not the reason. I already told you the reason.”
PAGE TWENTY-ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
KEVIN: “It’s true. I never stopped loving you. Not for one second…I’ve tried to drink you away…Tried to fuck you out of my mind…tried therapy…tried to immerse myself in my work…tried to find new hobbies and new distractions. None of it worked. At least not yet.”
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “I don’t know what to say. Ten years is a long time to hold a torch for someone, Kevin.”
KEVIN: “Yeah. It is. But I’m still holding it. I’m sorry if it makes you uncomfortable.”
Panel 3: Silent. She looks out of her window.
Panel 4: she looks at him and he smiles.
BAILEY: “I have to pee.”
END BOOK 1
TWO OF US
Book Two: “Burning Matches”
PAGE ONE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1: Exterior shot of a roadside diner. Kevin’s car is in the parking lot. It is dusk.
TEXT BOX: “Diner coffee is the best coffee…”
Panel 2: Kevin and Bailey sitting in a diner booth. This will be the setting of the entire issue. Bailey is holding a
cup of coffee, Kevin is looking at a map.
BAILEY: “…I’m not sure why that is, but it’s true.”
KEVIN: “We should hit the halfway mark in another hour-or so…”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “…I figure we can find a motel and get a few hours of sleep. Then we can hit the road again early tomorrow and we should be in Austin by seven-ish.”
BAILEY: “Works for me.”
Panel 4: Kevin folds the map.
BAILEY: “Are you nervous at all? About meeting him?”
KEVIN: “Of course I am.”
PAGE TWO: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “You haven’t said anything.”
KEVIN: “I’m trying to put it out of my mind until we get there. No use getting into a panic.”
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “I guess. I just can’t seem to stop thinking about it. What he may look like now…what he enjoys…is he into sports or art…is he good at math or writing…all that stuff.”
Panel 3:
KEVIN: “We’ll find all that out when we get there. Relax.”
Panel 4:
BAILEY: “Do you think he resents us?”
KEVIN: “He asked us to come see him. If he resented us, he wouldn’t want to see us.”
PAGE THREE: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
BAILEY: “What if he just wants to tell us how much he hates us?”
KEVIN: “I doubt that. The kid’s just curious about -“
Panel 2:
BAILEY: “And his PARENTS, God…What are his parents going to think when they meet us?”
Panel 3: Kevin is silent, looking away for a moment.
Panel 4: He picks up his coffee, nonchalantly.
KEVIN: “The seem like good people. I mean I haven’t talked to them all that much but they seem okay.”
BAILEY: “What were you going to say just then?”
PAGE FOUR: FOUR PANELS
Panel 1:
KEVIN: “When?”
BAILEY: “Just before. I said I wonder what his parents are going to think and it looked like you were going to say something.”
Panel 2:
KEVIN: “Hmm…I don’t remember.”
BAILEY: “