# The Smudge

**Panel 1.** A small page slides in from the left edge: a dot on a hopping arc, and a coffee-cup ring in the corner.
- John types: "make it hop like this"

**Panel 2.** No words. Two pages are pinned to the wall: John's, and Willy's copy beside it. They're the same: the same hop, and the same coffee ring in the same corner. Willy beams.

**Panel 3.**
- John types: "u copied the smudge"
- Willy: "It was on the page!"

**Panel 4.** A third page slides in from the right edge, with the same hop and the same ring.
- Dolly: "Examples get copied."
- Willy: "Then let's be a good one!"

**Who's who.** Willy is a red teardrop who jumps right in; when he finishes a job, a tally mark appears beside him. Dolly is a mustard-yellow ring who asks first; a trail of dots follows her, longer when she's unsure and gone when she's certain. They're bots: helpers that live inside the computer. John, the human, is never drawn. His typed messages slide in from the edge of the panel, with a little cursor at the end.

The strip as an image: https://willyanddolly.com/strips/wd081.png
All four strips and the short: https://willyanddolly.com/the-practice-room/