Good stuff, Lightfoot, good stuff, as always.
Oh, by the way, I just had this really neat idea for a picture: Pulse is a sci-fi comic, correct? Well, I got two words for you: alternate universes. I think it would be really cool to see a bunch of Annies from alternate universes posing together for a group photo. And each Annie would growing in a different way: One could be incredibly muscular, one could have a huge butt, one could be about 10 feet tall, one could be amazingly fat, and so on. ("Classic Annie" would be there too, of course.) You could call it "Annies of Many Worlds."
Man, you'd think that with an imagination like mine, I'd be able to draw the things I think up!