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And while that’s generally how we like our funny people — layered, nuanced, tortured — it tends to wreak havoc on the actual lives of the comics themselves.

Metzger, who also grew up in a multigenerational home, layered the project with a series of colorfully landscaped outdoor spaces dotted with varied buildings, their shifting materials and forms reflecting Altadena’s famously eclectic palette.

“These cases are layered, meticulous, require months of investigation,” said Johnson during a news conference.

It’s also more layered, with all those instruments enabling him to “stretch and do songs that were out of our reach as a five-piece.”

Games like The Last of Us, partly moulded by writers like Halley Gross, boast layered female characters at their core.