fraught with

wow - today's strip rules so hard!! i was going to make a montage of all of mary's thoughtful expressions from this strip, but that seemed like way too much work, so just check em' out on your own. 6-7 different meaningful looks!

other stuff that rules really hard:
1. 2 crazy charterstone winter pool party attendees in the background of the title panel! crazy enough to even put background characters in a throwaway panel! i so admire the artistry of this strip. guy in the blue is all jauntily swinging his arm to attract the attention of guy in the gray. don't fall down that random staircase, guy in the gray!! um, pretty much there could be a spinoff to the hemingway complex entirely devoted to background characters - so unnecessary that their very existence renders them awesome.

2. toby throws away all the cookies between panels 1 and 2.

3. drew and vera are still wandering around in panel 3, and vera has a t-rex arm.

4. mary's hand gesture in panel 6 is the 2nd best thing ever drawn. (the first best was a bunch of animals drawn by the hemingway complex's younger brother circa 2005. still featured on the hemingway complex's refridgerator to this day.)

5. wide varieties of flora featured, such as evergreens, palms, weird trees and rocks.

6. toby's gigantic head and different-type face.

7. the hope that mary is finally going to provide us with a good reason that she is such an insane meddler. this better be worth it!!!! the hemingway complex can't even imagine what could have happened to one in childhood to give one such a pervasive sense of overconfidence in one's advice-giving? like, as an impressionable child, one watched someone not meddle in someone else's life and disaster ensued? then the child was like, i must always meddle and spout platitudes? i can't wait!!!!!! i hope the flashback is drawn in b/w with old-timey background characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!