Ok. I get the gay issue doesn't bother lisa(kind of) but I'm confused as to why you brought it up as an issue only to have it not be? It feels as though you were going to use it as an issue but later decided not to for reasons?But my main concern is the conversation between Val and Lisa. It doesn't move the story forward in any way, Except possibly as a wrap up to Val which I felt already happened when Lisa apologized to her awhile back. It would actully make more sense (imo) if Lisa was having it with Anne. It ties in with why she is so important to lisa/ally getting together and it would make this conversation important not just here but to what happens later in the last three strips-from what you have hinted at and my assumptions- anne gets fed up with ally and gets mad at her. This could be where that fuels comes from, well at least some of it. Again just my two cents