Original Commentary

I wrote this comic. The script for the first panel read, as I originally had it, "do something with this comic - maybe Brisbane complaining about Sofia having changed". So Isabel wrote that line, which brings the point home. He didn't want the Sofia of Unlike Minerva. He wanted the Sofia he knew before that, who you readers have seen only in flashbacks. Funny how what you ask for isn't always what you want - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I mean, Brandie was cheating on him, dumped him, and was pregnant with someone else's child at that point. That was kind of a good exit point for that relationship. By which I mean she broke up with him, not the other way around.

But we all like to think that we have control over our lives even when sometimes we are merely carried by the tides. And if it takes Brisbane telling himself that he dumped Brandie for him to start swimming against the current, then at least it's a harmless lie. - Terrence