"But can I relate?" - a comic WIP (10/14/20) (Patreon)

Have you noticed the amount of gay memes that focus on top-bottom identity? Like a photo of a yard decorated for Halloween with a two story skeleton - "6'4" Bottoms terrorizing the gay community" or a blurry picture of a twink - "How Tops take pictures of their bottoms". I find them quite amusing - usually for their crypticism.

This morning's drawing session was rife with my usual reminders that storytelling is all about relationships and that needs to be built into the foundation. And when I say "relationships" I mean it on every level from how the characters fit with the perspective of the room, to the way they speak to each other in the script.

A few things I that went through my mind today:
• I spent way too much time trying to figure out this fucking tripod side table. So, I have chosen to design the roommate's apartment with three things in mind. 1) Height - things are either high up or low to the ground 2) Sexual Position - things have a strong base or are top heavy and 3) Phallic references - hence this table that I decided should be tall and skinny (usually with a big lamp on top - but not here) but also have a tripod base. It's in a lot of my apartment sketches but I never really figured it out, so I'm still working on it. (Maybe too much)
• There should be a dick print in Matt's underpants even when they are not pulled up. I thought this would be funny and I sometimes I forget that comic drawings should be as funny as you can make them - even NSFW ones.
• And... I never think about balls (maybe that says something about me as a sexual partner?) I usually just go for a cartoonish bulge shape...