Original Commentary

So, once again I need a moderately large number of names. These ones are from the album Lolita Nation by Game Theory. It's a great album that I'd suggest you get, except it's been out of print for a decade. I sometimes worry that I'm not making it obvious enough when the characters are saying important things or when it's just chatter. Robert doesn't understand what's going on and Jane only knows about it because the involved parties won't shut up.

There were an unusually large number of discarded jokes for this comic, including that everyone in the appliance department has been replaced four times in the last year but this kind of drama is endemic regardless. Or that people like that were why Jane spent her high school years with her hair dyed blue - Terrence

Modern Commentary
The cast page says Robert is 25 and I'm not really sure if that's his age at the beginning or end of the comic. But a lot of Jane's coworkers at this party are high schoolers and probably not old enough to legally drink.

I do not like the text of that third panel at all. It brings meaningless complexity. None of that will be on the test. It never comes up again and it doesn't matter.

I hope it comes across that none of that is important and you don't have to remember it. I hope.

If I had this to do over again, I would've cut the irrelevant chatter and maybe tried for a stronger parallel between this party and the Halloween party - Terrence