Thus far one of the things I like most about this series are the back covers. Each is laid out like the cover of a magazine, Rocket Times, the paper at which Bach is trying to convince Hilly to work. There's a lovely Norman Rockwell aesthetic to the pieces, showing the characters in situations that, in the course of the narrative, they are unlikely to encounter. There's something about this kind of outside-narrative depiction that gives one the feeling of the characters actually being characters played by people who, simply, look exactly like their characters. I got a similar feeling from the Cutey Bunny stories in Army Surplus Komikz.
In some ways, the characters are simply roles being played, though it is B.C. Boyer who is playing all of the roles. In an independently-produced work such as this one, I have to imagine that each character represents something of the creator, or at least represents something the creator has internalized. This is what Foucault and Barthes talk about when they (Foucault mainly) theorize on the "author function." But, to be honest, it's too early in the morning for Foucault.
Oh, and in this issue, Hilly's Dad is just wrong and creepy.
"Please, Hilly, whatever you do, put away that cute little journalistic bug you have...and stay being my sweet...innocent...naive girl."
(Seriously, those pauses at the end? Gross.)
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