I do love callbacks.

I really do.

The last dialog balloon purposefully runs of the page, that’s not a mistake.

I would like to mention that I intentionally want to leave the “Editor-in-Chief’s” name and company vague but he is visually based on a real comic book writer. James Tynion IV, someone who has been writing for Batman (seriously, BATMAN) and just had is comic “The Department of Truth” optioned for a movie. Before all that he was just another member on the same web forum where Houde, James (the other James), and I use to post. The site led directly to the creation of this webcomic and it seemed fitting to have him usher Beck to his dream job. Every time I see James’ name on a cover I can’t help but smile with a mixture of joy and jealousy thinking “I kind of, sort of know that guy!” He is incredibly talented and if you haven’t already you should check out his work.

In my mind, Mickey’s girlfriends Simone is a successful restaurant manager and was the one to set this up for Beck. That’s why Mickey was the one who came up with this idea. Though I couldn’t find a way to naturally insert that little fact into the