I agonised about Emma calling Todd "college boy" right up until exporting the page out of inDesign. I thought her just calling him "college" would roll off the tongue better but the one-two punch of basically calling him an elitist child kinda works.

Also, foreboding. That's what the line is for.

Anyway. My martial arts experience is limited to a couple years of Judo in high school and some "grappling" at a pistol CQB class where it was more of a "let's get you good and winded and shaky and the force you to make precision shots on cardboard" kinda vibe. So I'm referencing a lot of krav maga from online research here.

The temptation to basically draw this as animation keys is high, so I keep reminding myself of Scott McCloud's "blood in the gutters" principle to avoid making this comic twice as long as it needs to be, turning it into a flip book 😅