Henkl’s lover, Dove, was created after I meet my first gay punk, a guy who made a pretty big impression on me.  I thought Dove would be a good partner-in-crime for Henkl. Once in the strip though, Dove stepped into the background, as I tried to figger out something for him to do besides have rough sex with Henkl.  His missing arm was never explained, nor much of his past.  Somehow, a mash-up of ideas and plots I had resolved itself into a soap-opera I could use to explain who Dove was and where he came from.  It’s a mix of The X-Mens Dark Phoenix/Jean Gray Saga, the 80’s black comedy “Heathers” with Christian Slater and Winona Ryder, and a spanish soap opera.  In this first episode I was about to send the cartoon off to my papers when a friend asked, “I thought Dove was missing an arm?”  I’d drawn Dove with two arms in every panel and he needed both for the pool cue and Ian’s seduction.  Luckily, I was able to insert a prosthetic arm in it’s place.