Bill Roundy's first customer of the day is a middle-aged mom. She's drawn to Roundy's postcard ads which feature a Dr. Who TARDIS, a common selling point at the New York City Comic Con. Roundy has a half a table to sell his books, mostly zine-style stapled comics, at the Geeks OUT! booth, a queer nerd group that dots the table with stickers bragging "I'm Going to Skip Ender's Game." There's one comic of Roundy's that everyone has been looking at recently, and soon enough the mom is looking at it too. It's titled "Orientation Police" and features two men making out on its cover and the titular policeman, with trademark mustache, declaring "Nope. Doesn't count. Not gay enough.

"Is this your journey?," she asks. Her daughter has been going through "a thing," she tells Roundy. Her daughter is bi. Or maybe she's not bi, maybe she's queer? The mom isn't sure but she knows her perception of her daughter is changing, and is trying to learn and adjust. Roundy has a friendly, energetic nature, eager to explain. Although he isn't the type to the use a word as epic as 'journey', yes, he responds. "Orientation Police" is true life, not so much a narrative story as it is an explanation of Roundy's preference for dating transgender guys and the various reactions he's gotten to that. So this book might not be specifically helpful. She buys a copy all the same.

"I follow [the cartoonist] Kate Leth, Kate or Die, on Tumblr, and my own comic came up on my dashboard," Roundy says, remembering the moment he knew "Orientation Police" went huge. "At that point, it had ten thousand notes. I didn't put it there, someone I still don't know put it up. But there was a link to my site, and I was like, 'Okay, I'll put this on my own site'. It went from 10,000 to 20,000 [notes] in about five hours. Last time I checked, it was up to around 70,000." "Orientation Police" struck a powerful chord online although its origins are in a book that's not even out yet, an anthology titled Anything That Loves.