What have we got here? New characters, events reflecting real life, and even my Microsoft Image Composer skills showing their face. The first strip shows the Flatliner equivalent of our friend Tricia, who had this way of taking a moment to a level no one would ever expect. I’m fairly certain this is yet another conversation as it actually happened.
Then there is Pumpkinseed. The conversation he has with me is the start of one I had every day at that job. People really couldn’t wrap their heads around there being two standard types of sprinkles they could have on their ice cream. In many of their minds there must have been a default. To me, the well-educated ice cream salesman with his finger on the pulse of the community- this was simply not true.
The character of Pumpkinseed appears again later, and in a storyline that I don’t think I quite understood at the time. Then there’s a whole strip foreshadowing my short-lived life in Vermont (I got better).
