Advanced Apathy

This strip– “Aspirin” we’ll call it– as I recall, was inspired by a mean headache, I’m almost sure of it. Now, having done a fair bit of research into Grey aliens and stuff, I’ve NEVER come across a line where someone has touched one of these things on its’ head. I’ve always thought that maybe these mythical, elusive, insistent little sumb*tches were somewhat fragile, maybe. That the reason you don’t read about the way they feel is ’cause they’re just a little anal about being touched. I gotta write this down–I can feel a gag here, somewhere. Anyway, I decided somewhere in the creation of this strip that Grey alien skulls are sort of  cartilaginous and durably flexible and resilient, lending nicely to the cartoon premise that one could stuff his face, sinuses, maxilla, and frontal lobe behind his mandible (maybe as a defense mechanism, I don’t know).