In the spirit of full disclosure, I have no idea what Allen would go on to say from there if not interrupted 
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It’s a minor detail but I thought showing that Ashley knows about Allen’s dad (even if it slipped her mind as she’s caught up in her own issues) would help show the level of friendly relationship they have. Its one of those things that make sense to me as the creator but I always worry the reader might not pick up on bits like that. Any thoughts?
In case anyone is wondering, Allen doesn’t yet know that he’s already met Ashley’s dad, that’s coming soon though. I originally intended for their to be some thought captions in the bottom-left corner of the first panel but kept getting hung up on what to put, everything I came up with I had issues with right until the last minute when I just scrapped it altogether.
Sorry about the late update, took a bit longer than I expected to finish this page it was so late once I got done I figure I’d just set it to run on Saturday.
Michael Mason here is modeled after ESPN hockey analyst and former coach Barry Melrose, with his slicked back mullet and designer suits he looks like he could just as easily be a distinguished southern redneck gentleman as opposed to an old hockey roughneck from Saskatchewan.
Now that he’s finally made an appearance I can say Mason is kind of a mix of J. Jonah Jameson and the Kingpin, this might be a bit of a spoiler but part of the inspiration behind the character and his part of the story was one of the earliest Kingpin stories from way back in the day.
