Never marker late at night kids. If you do that, you forget the shades of gray that your characters are, and end up with with a raccoon with an emo-hair-dye-job complexion...or would that mean he'd only be intermittently darker... (If it were a regular emo-complexion, he'd be more pale.)
That being said, I figure that since this was a comic on muses, and one of its core themes will be development, this added a nice touch.
Yeah, I'll try blaming all my mistakes on that if I start now...