BONUS: Marie Gets Her Own Comic

I’m starting to get predictable! It was either this conversation or the random bag of grapes that we found in the arts and crafts section of Walmart. Tough decision, I know.

This is just one of the many bonus comics that will be inside the print zine of the August 2008 issue (which is forthcoming, I swears it). I promised Marie I’d share her debut with the world, and so here we are…

Taking Tara Back to College

Carrying water, I believe, is standard procedure for training for the Olympics.

Okay, I made that up. But it should be.

As per the final panel…well, I’m used to my own mother forgetting my name, but generally she calls me by a name of my same gender. Generally. Monica is a new one. No offense to the real Monica, but I don’t think I look like one–maybe a Stephanie or a Samantha, but not a Mon. Tis not fate.