Have You Considered He’s Ace?

Do any of these work? I can dig up more if needed

It didn’t take very long for Hank to notice that Sanderson Hawkins looked at him strangely every time they met, but it wasn’t the sort of thing he was going to pry about. He assumed that it was probably because the man was constantly hanging around Jen, and had some amount of interest in her, or something like that. Truly, he did not want to pry, because the other option was just the continuing trend of everyone thinking he was still unstable. 

He’d dodged away from him the first couple of times it happened, assuming that if he showed he didn’t want a confrontation, and continued to avoid Jen, eventually the other man would give up and go back to trying to woo her. 

Unfortunately, the other man just seemed to be seeking him out more. Jay had acted as a distraction for him a few times, but it was rapidly becoming clear that he was starting to find all this amusing. Hank realized that he had to face the music. 

He glanced up at the other man, who had hemmed him in against the kitchen counter while he was getting coffee, and took a long sip, immediately scorching his tongue. He coughed, rubbing it against the back of his hand, but the damage was already done. 

Sand grabbed him by his wrist, pulling his hand away from his mouth, and pressed his own fingers down against the soft, tender flesh. “The burn doesn’t seem too bad,” he said, before Hank could even flinch away. 

He winced, feeling a slight sting in his tongue, and Sand hadn’t even let go before he admonished him with a garbled: “That’s a bit intimate for strangers, don’t you think?” 

Something flashed behind Sand’s eyes at that, but he did let go. “I would say that piecing someone’s mind back together is also a bit intimate for strangers.” 

Ah, he did have to admit that was true. But that had been different. That had been an emergency. And yet he didn’t really have an argument against that, at least not one that sounded right to him. 

Y’all remember when it was a trend to draw characters in boxes or smth, or am I hallucinating this?

But anyways I just finished re-reading Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and it reminded me how much I like these fellas.

Courtney is literally me, if I was female and still 15 years old.

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

infinity inc (plus jesse) come back to me

According to Star Spangled Comics (1941) #1-10

Equatorial Insects

Caesar

Ants

Pathological Studies of a Goldfish

Amoeba (a type of cell or unicellular organism)

Neuroses in Bees

Comets

Plants that exist without Chlorophyll

Dual Personalities 

Electrodynamictheurolateral Physics (is this even real?)

Criminology x3

According to Leading Comics (1941) #1-14

Rare Rock Specimens

Oceanic Plankton

Mosses of the North woods

Whales

Raising Tropical Fish