It must have been a week of non-stop Toystore working back in May of ’03. Actually most of ’03 was pretty much nothing but working at the toy store and playing Warcraft III, so there’s that.
There’s more messing around with Image Composer backgrounds- an unfortunate thing that I have– thanks to archive.org– enabled myself to start doing again. We’re treading on some dangerous ground, here. Fortunately there’s probably several months before I run out of Flatliner strips and decide on what the next thing to commit to could be.
The phone with the word *slam* is prescient of my favorite Ikea art that I hung up in my place for many years. I never made the connection between that art and this panel, which is encouraging to think that I had forgotten Flatliner so quickly.
The background for the employee restroom would also be famously used in Act III, for perhaps our grossest panel. Don’t worry, it’s as of this writing going to be the cover art for the chapter, as it was last in 2004-05 when I divided these chapters up to begin with. It’s… offensive. And gross. Just you wait.