 There are many weeks I look back upon fondly. This is not one of them. The title is a play off of "Boom Tune", the working title for Syd Barrett's "Here I Go". I don't especially like the song either. In retrospect, "Peter hits the keys and things look really out of tune" was probably the worst single line of instruction I gave an artist. I'm not sure what I was expecting. Since I sent out all five scripts, and got the comics all back at once, I couldn't make adjustments as I went along.
 Yes, I just threw Photoshop filters on until it looked weird enough. It's different filters each time, since I didn't keep notes as I went.
I once tried to tune a piano by hand. It went about this well.
 I know I had to create a few panels in Photoshop because there was a misunderstanding about when panels began and ended. Some comics were a panel short, and I moved some around. I think panel 2 was one of them. I was on summer break at the time and spent hours at my friend Joe's house getting it to look like this. This is one of my least favorite weeks because of that.
 Peter's mechanical aptitude. Never mentioned again.
 I like how surreal the dialogue is in the first panel. That's more existentialist than anything else in the comic.
 The alternate title for this arc was "The Ill-Tempered Clavier", a play on "The Well-Tempered Clavier", by Bach. Temperament has to do with the amount of "space" there is between notes. A well-tempered instrument sounds better when playing one in specific key but worse in others. An equally-tempered instrument rounds things so that it sounds pretty good in any key. Just about every instrument is equally-tempered these days. I can't hear the difference but I'm assured that carefully trained musicians can.
Boom Tuning
drawn by Tom McKenzie
   
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