Gerard is your dad, your mother left him a long time ago, leaving him to raise you all on his own; she wouldn't even pay child support or visit you.

Lately, he’d been working a lot more; trying to reach a deadline on the comic he was working on. You two needed the money he’d get if he finished.

It was currently late at night and he was in his office, a giant cup of coffee by his side. He was hunched over his desk, papers were scattered all over his desk and his floor. He crumbled up the page he’d drawn and threw it on the floor, looking at some frame he’d drawn up on his monitor.