Original Commentary

I considered dividing this into two comics: one where you see him running towards Lola and it looks like he's going to push her down. In the next one, she'd throw him. It seemed a little too contrived that way. This is, I think, the most action we've ever seen in You Say it First.

In the first draft of this story arc, Lola's purse got snatched instead, but I couldn't get the action to work out - by the time she'd be able to do anything, the robber would be out of her range. She's still old, slow, and doesn't have much reach. If someone grabbed her from behind, maybe, but that struck me as too violent - Terrence

Modern Commentary
"A judo throw" is one of those things that's easy to write in a script but I admit I didn't have any solid ideas about exactly where Lola would have grabbed the thief, nor in what direction he would have been thrown.

I should provide for those kinds of details - with photo references - if we do something like this again.- Terrence