Chapter 3
March
Panel 1:
Drawings by a young but talented artist. Labelled as follows:
Portia
Age: 14
Powers: Reading, Eye roling
Weekness: Smiling for picktures, Ernist Hemmingway
Angel
Age: 9
Powers: Inventing, Out smartting
Weeknesses: Zombies, Green beans
Kate (Mom)
Age: 100
Powers: Classifide!
Weakness: Top secret!
Joel (Dad)
Age: 1,000
Powers: Making jokes, Bered
Weekness: Hart burn, When blowing up space ships in movies makes sownd
Panel 2:
Angel is showing his parents his drawings. They're actually "character sheets".
> Angel: Do you want to play my game? You can be Angel if you want! >
Kate is smiling in her reserved way. She finds this charming.
> Kate: I’m 37, by the way. >
Joel does not find it charming—he is outraged!
> Joel: Yeah, and I am older than your mom by one year, not by a factor of TEN! >