Dissect My Brain (Union Weekly Serial) Season 3, Episode 3: "Nobody Does It Quite Like You."

I understand that this is super late, and I also understand that this strip is actually super old!

Yes, friends, the strip you see before you as the third episode of Dissect My Brain's climactic third season was originally slated as the finale of Season Two. It didn't get printed because of some miscommunications between myself and the Union Weekly comics editor. It all worked out though because this strip fits well with the previous two episodes of the season.

Now, what can I possibly say about this? Well, for starters, I was afraid that people were going to read into this comic and think I'm misogynistic. By no means is this the point of this strip. I've actually taken dialogue from people who've shown romantic interest in me, and just compiled it into one strip. This is not an attack on gender, but rather case studies. I want to make one thing perfectly clear: there are plenty of outstanding women in my life that I am extremely grateful for. . . some of which I've made strips of!

I will say this: the look of these girls are purely fictitious. Girl #1's dialogue is actually the one that offends me the most. The real life girl it was based on had a thing for Asian guys, and so I gave her a neckless with the kanji "愛" ("ai," which means "love"). Girl #2 is the classic case of "if you constantly say you're one thing, chances are you are not." People have asked me if it was based off of Oak Street Blues bandmate, Desiree, to which I can confirm here that it is not.

Girl #3 has such a cool design that I think she deserves her own series. It just may happen. As for for her dialogue? I kind of feel bad about this one. I mean, there are plenty of people (most of whom are musicians) that claim "music is my life," but for some reason it just seems like such a clichéd phrase at times. It's almost as clichéd as people who say: "I like all kinds of music, except country."

Last note: my lovely editor Kaetlyn tells me the beer bottles look too much like ketchup bottles. That is all.

Shirt of the week:

It's a Modest Mouse shirt from Glacial Pace. They're my absolute favorite band!
You can get this shirt at the official Glacial Pace website,
which is Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock's record label.

Original Publication: September 18, 2012.
Union Weekly Vol. 71. Issue #4.