Health

Marcel coughs on a sofa while Anna hopes he is not getting sick.

This is what we, in the business of explaining comics, call foreshadowing. It's when you subtly hint at something that will become relevant later. For example, I might be getting sick. Will I? Who could possibly know? Stay tuned.

Marcel offers Millimeter a treat to hide her deworming pill, but she avoids it.

A week after getting their vaccines, the cats got their yearly deworming pills. Millimeter, smart as she is, somehow managed to eat around the pill hidden in her treat. I didn't think she was capable of that, since she's normally eager to devour absolutely anything and everything.

I had to bring out the big guns and hide the pill in some liver sausage. They love that stuff so much that they don't care what else is inside.

Marcel arrives for a chest treatment but receives a facial, then relaxes as the aesthetician massages his face.

I tend to get milia on my chest. The aesthetician didn't know why that would ever happen and made me feel like some weird edge case of a human being, but getting my face smushed for 50 minutes made me forget that affront pretty quickly.

This was a nice experience. Unnecessarily expensive, because I ended up getting something I never wanted, but while lying there, getting every pore of my upper body cleaned out, I decided to consider it a good investment in having something to draw about that day. Do it for the comic!

Marcel looks at a green mark on his shoulder in a mirror.

I like spelunking in the weird corners of the internet where people still discuss whether the Covid vaccines gave us all the ability to wirelessly communicate with Microsoft's servers. It's fascinating to see people still stuck on a topic that everyone else has long since moved on from.

When I drew this, I wondered for a second if I should post it, because I didn't want to start a stupid discussion about something that's a completely normal bodily reaction to being stuck with a needle. But then I remembered that I can just block people. Ha!

Anyway. This was a couple of days after I got vaccinated, and it took nearly another week for the green color to go away.

Marcel runs past newly green trees, then relaxes beside his laptop while coding features for his blog.

Coding became a lot easier once I didn’t have to do it myself anymore.