do you still think about it, page 23 [sketch]

first of all, i learned there are safety protocols to removing latex gloves in medical settings. i am glad to have serendipitous learned this while looking for glove references. that's what's up with the strange way she's removing gloves, though. i wanted like, a sensory release of tension, in the rubber, to release the tension of her workday symbolically.

i think lola texts sugar at the end of her work shift normally on the dot like she does at sugar's lunch break. in this case, i imagine she's a few minutes later than usual, because she's painting something.
i deliberated over whether she'd say please or not in the text, but decided to leave it out, to make her sound less... sycophantic, and less formal. she probably reserves "please"s for when she deliberately wants to yank on sugar's heartstrings, like puppy dog eyes.
i had sugar say just okay here because it's just like. the most blunt, no-frills way to give an affirmative, and it also lacks any kind of social decorum to make it less likely to be taken as hostile. while lola won't take it that way because they know each other well, it still allows characteristics of sugar to remain obvious, like not picking up well on social cues,  or foreseeing how what she says will be taken.

i also deliberately avoided showing the exterior of the car again because it feels like it takes away some of the power of the earlier appearance of it. because i want sugar's ideation to be somewhat habitual, but somewhat emotionally driven, i don't necessarily want to focus on the car being canyonized as a rule -- at least in the reader's eyes.

that's all i really have to say about this page because my thumb hurts and i am tired. i thought it wouldn't take so long to get through this part, but, such are comics.