I think I got my primary aestetic influences during a time when people thought the hippest thing in the world was random melodramatic text you wheren't supposed to read anyway. Anyway, jsut fooling around in photoshop, the only really noticable feature is the chromatic pun.

After I was done with the foreground, she looked so much like she war running for mayor so I contemplatedp utting a flag in the brackground, but I couldnt decide on which flag.
American would make the joke most obvious, but MElody is not american,
Union Jack? I really like the look of that flag, but the comic doesnt take place in Britain,
Swedish? Some people think she's a swedish character, but officially the town is located vaguely somewhere in Northern Europe.
The EU flag? well, you don't run for president of the European Union,
The Nostovian flag? (My alien race, the Nostovians uses a Kanizsa Triangle, this http://www.illusionism.org/media/Ka.....a-triangle.png as a national symbol) that's even trickier, because those are separate universes. In the end, making sense was too hard, so i went for something nonsensical