#i love this very much #in ways that honestly i havent fully conceptualized #likes jokes about story armour aside #his evaluations of what people say and what they dont— #his dialogues with eli—the asking and the answering-- #and further its beautifully drawn here #the uncontrolled spray of elis fringe in the first panel #but but #what really gets me about the comic is still #like an influencer on a beach hike