Bill did a number of the comics from stuff I suggested, usually with significant improvements. E.g.,
Panel 1. ALYCIA: (pointing accusingly at JASON) You turned into a tyrant in the future. An evil mad scientist!
Panel 2. ALYCIA: I saw it Jason. In the future! I saw it!
Panel 3. (ALYCIA glares. JASON looks hangdog.)
Panel 4.
ALYCIA: (smiling) Also, I GOT TO GO TO THE FUTURE!
JASON: (still hangdog) Aw, man ...
Bill adapted that
pretty closely, with the additional niftyness of Animated Happy Alycia. Though I still kind of like the idea of Jason's remorse over his future tyranny turning into sulking that
she got to go into the future and
he didn't.
This second is, I
think, what inspired the spiffy
Harry+Chip-Prism comic (Bill did say he took a lot of liberties):
Panel 1.
HARRY: Hey, Jason!
JASON (sitting) : Hey Harry! Warehouse 3.
HARRY: Thanks!
Panel 2.
JASON (sitting)
Panel 3.
HARRY (now on Jason's other side, holding a large bag/box): Thanks again, Jason!
JASON: Nice seeing you, Harry.
Panel 4.
HARRY: You know, you don't have to buy all the chips in Halcyon just to get me to visit.
JASON: It's good to have money.
I also believe
the "Dammit Jason!" curse jar stems from this gag:
Panel 1. Phone ringing.
Panel 2. Jason (picks up): Hello?
Panel 3. Voice from phone: DAMMIT, JASON! (click)
Panel 4. Jason to the viewer (fourth wall): That happens a lot more often than you might think
Alycia and Charlotte's encounter, as scripted in mild self-mockery of Alycia's melodramatic cutscenes:
Panel 1. Alycia (to Charlotte): The ghosts of my past haunt me.
Panel 2. Alycia (to Charlotte): They haunt me!
Panel 3. (Silence. Charlotte looks at Alycia, who's covering her face in her hands.)
Panel 4.
Charlotte: Actually, they say you're a nice kid, just a little stressed - -
Alycia: HAUNT ME!
I do like the "emo-globin" line.
Finally, the
Alycia and the Newmans strip, where Bill much improved my punchline.
(All ALYCIA to SUMMER)
Panel 1. So I talked with you, and you were nice.
Panel 2. Then I talked to Leo and he was clueless.
Panel 3. Then I talked to Aria, and she was compassionate.
Panel 4. You guys make it really tough to maintain a terrified paranoia.
So now you see that little bit of the creative process, too.
Again, many thanks to Bill for keeping us delightfully "pacified" whilst Doyce was recovering.