Chapter 17 | Page 3a: Meet-Cute (Patreon)

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In today’s Evil Inc, a harmless bit of online chatter spirals into:

A flaming smartphone

A very angry Miss Match

Iron Dragon casually explaining rom-com tropes at work

And the phrase “meet-cute” being bandied about

You know. Office stuff. The rest of the page drops later this week!

Transcript

Panel 1 Caption: Meanwhile, at Evil Inc… Miss Match (walking in foreground) Lightning Lady (in background): Psst. Come here…

Panel 2Lightning Lady: You’re gonna hear about this today…Lightning Lady: It’s better it’s from me.

Panel 3Miss Match (holding phone): So what? A waitress spilled soup on Cap…Lightning Lady: Read the comments.

Panel 4 Miss Match (angrily, as the phone in her hands erupts into flames): Meet-cute?! What the fuck is a “meet-cute”?!Iron Dragon is walking by and sees this happening.

Panel 5 Iron Dragon: A meet-cute is when two characters in a romantic movie meet for the first time in a charming or embarrassing way. Iron Dragon: Surgat loves rom-coms.

Panel 6 Miss Match (annoyed): I guess you think you’re pretty smart, huh?

Panel 7  Iron Dragon: No.

Panel 8 Iron Dragon (looking at phone, smoldering in Miss Match’s hands): If I were smart, I wouldn’t have let Lightning Lady borrow my phone this morning.