I was originally going to call it an “eye strain inducing high definition screen”, but I cut the text for clarity and pacing. I also dropped the words “from fifty years in [the future]” from the last panel to save space. While sometimes I really get wordy and I think it can be appropriate, I don’t think it helped anything in this particular case and I’d rather have the writing be concise to not distract from the art.
I also axed a strip where the guy was confused as to how to operate the coffee maker. Though a drip coffee maker is a pretty simplistic device, I felt it was in character for him. I axed it because, quite simply, how many “I’m from the future, things are so different in the past!” jokes can you make? I plan on making a few, and I thought it was the weakest one, so I cut it out.
