I admit, it's sometimes difficult to read the handwriting, but I can appreciate how the characters take up the entirety of the panels.

Yes, that's the magic of it! I admit that Big Belly Bird is a little hesitant towards Mars's romance novels. That's why he had the courage to tell him, "I just hope somebody likes that mushy stuff". I had him say that in the comic because most romance movies - especially the ones from Hallmark - are a little dull and mushy. I'd be happy to see kissing penguins and birds, but humans have taken kissing way too far by making it look...well, mushy fits it perfectly. Also, did you notice how Big Bird mentioned he created his own autobiography called "Birds of a Feather"? I NEVER made that up!! I own "Big Bird's Sesame Street Dictionary" book for the letters A and B (along with E through G), and in the A-B book, there's a little section that defines the word "author": When an example is used to accompany the definition, it literally says "Big Bird is the author of 'Birds of a Feather'" and shows him wearing a green visor on his head, glasses on his beak, and a typewriter placed in front of him with several finished pages on its side. Isn't that remarkable?!? The humans say Big Bird has always been 6 years old in human years, but since he's been on the show for 50 years "and counting", who knows how old he is in bird years? What do you think of that?