Recently I had a nifty dream in which I was in the place of “The Little Mermaid” and was accompanied by a wobbly octopus man.

I was kneeling on the beach, upset at my failure of seducing the prince charming or whatnot, and he slithered up behind me. I chastised his poor disguise and he comically fixed the bends in his tentacles to imitate a man, like something out of a Miyazaki/Ghibli film.

I thought about making a short comic of it, but then I saw Ponyo and realized that was their version of the fairy tale. Now I’m uninspired.