Making of "Warpath"

I often notice when my hormones are out of whack because my inner monologue gets unnecessarily bitchy, but sometimes J will notice before I do.  I'm usually relieved to have it pointed out because it means whatever is troubling me won't seem so bad in a few days.  One time recently though I was having a really crappy time of it and I was SURE it wasn't "that time" again yet.  He delicately asked, as he always does, but this time I bit his head off!  He apologized profusely and I cooled off, only to realize my mistake when I did check my tracking app and... oops!  Yeah... there it was!  

People seem to get a kick out of my couples comics, so I thought this one would be a good addition to the roster.  I started with 2 panels on the first row, but worried it would look too similar to "One of My Days" -which is was already dangerously close to!  I realized I didn't actually need to have 2 reactions from Joel and rolled his reply into the 1st panel.

The wave of emotions in the center row was important, so I started with my usual trick of upping the intensity by zooming in on the character.  The ultra zoomed in face was restricting the expressions though, so I pulled back and kept pushing them until they were as extreme as I could make them.

For the last panel I got worried people wouldn't understand her checking her app, so I changed it to her catching on from her crazy mood swings.  J pointed out that this wasn't as funny and after sleeping on it I realized he was right and changed it back!

I had Joel with a blanket and chocolate bar at first, but thought it looked a tiny bit like he was going to bag her up and chuck for in the river! 🤣  I changed it to a mug instead and thought some sort of warning label on it could be funny.  I googled warning signs for reference and found this one:

I laughed so hard at how I'd only need to change it a little bit for it to be 100% accurate!  

After finishing the comic and exporting it to my computer to post here, I realized the middle panels were a bit drab, so I went in and messed with the hue and saturation to make them pop more.

Here is one of the few iterations of the bonus panel:

It will only let me have 1 video per post, so I'll post the bonus panel time-lapse separately.  Needless to say it was quite a mission!