TITLE BOX
In the title box, the whole family is quietly eating dinner.
NEXT PANEL, DAD speaks, staring at RAYNE and ERIC.
DAD
It’s creepy when you’re all quiet.
NEXT ROW
INSIDE – KITCHEN. ERIC makes conversation.
ERIC
Sometimes I wish we lived in China.
MOM
How come?
ERIC smirks, RAYNE nods.
ERIC
Their one-child policy.
RAYNE
Interesting.
RAYNE makes conversation.
RAYNE
Sometimes I wish I grew up in Ancient Greece.
DAD
Why’s that?
RAYNE explains.
RAYNE
I think the spartans would be interested in his visible deformities.
MOM turns to DAD, who makes conversation.
MOM
Are you going to do something about this?
DAD
Sometimes I wish I was a celibate English monk during the Middle Ages.