Today Will Be Different

The novel switches to Daniel Clowes’s perspective. He describes meeting Eleanor Flood at San Diego Comic Con when he is selling his art. She compliments his work, which surprises him because most people don’t like it. She then tells him that she will buy all the artwork that’s for sale. Nine years later, Dan goes to New York to see his nephew and meets Eleanor again. He visits the Looper Wash studio in SoHo and sees her artwork from the show, as well as other artwork, some of which makes fun of the Fox executives. This earns Dan’s respect. He then sees artwork about her childhood. He informs her that he needs to nominate someone for the Minerva Prize and encourages her to make her other artwork into a comic. Dan notes Eleanor’s potential as an artist, anticipating her future work.

The narrative returns to Eleanor’s perspective. Surprised, Timby says that he did not know his mother had a sister. Eleanor quickly tells him that she does not and that The Flood Girls is a fictional take on her life.