Sleep is for the weak. :D And yeah. As far as I can tell the file corrupted on save somehow, but fortunately I still had it open in GIMP and was able to fix things by simply re-saving.

But still. I'm sorry it went up like that for you guys!

....

ARGH!

The frustrating thing is, I had a hard time getting it uploaded, so I loaded the page and checked before I went to bed. But I was really tired and I must not have scrolled down. :P

Fixed now....

It says "Have a nice day!"

I cannot claim too much credit for this; I simply saw it as I was scrolling through the dozen or so mugs in my runtime folders, went "HA! Oh, that's perfect," and used it. Glad to see some of you guys share my sense of the ridiculous. But if you're all gonna read the mugs I'll have to do more close-ups. :D

It's not actually an extra finger, it's just his thumb in a bloody awkward stupid position. And now that you've said it I can only see six fingers. Gotta go back and fix that....

And yeah, I should probably fix the wording while I'm at it. I had a really hard time making comics last week for one reason and another. This week feels better, which is good -- I have some pretty interesting strips coming up and I'd hate to funk my way through them.

The psi became associated with the santos cult of St. Louis some time ago (not to be confused with the actual Catholic saint; it's what's known as an accretion cult, meaning people said, "I dunno, they named a city after him so he must have been important, I think he was a king? And he flew across the ocean, but that doesn't sound all that impressive to us, so maybe it was around the world. And had adventures. And we'll throw in some Greek symbols because someone put them on a building and they look kingly. Why is that historian crying?") It's classified as a questor-saint cult, and the symbol is technically supposed to bring you light in dark corners, but Murdoch wears it because it belonged to his grandfather, his grandmother told him to wear it, and his grandmother is the sort that people continue obeying long after she's dead just in case.

And no, I think wright1 asked about it a while back and I never answered, so it hadn't been explained until now. :D

It goes down, then across. Sorry. I worry about signaling panel flow with these a lot but I'm still not very good at it. :P

It does kind of work the other way too, though, doesn't it? Never noticed that.

Technically yes -- Edie was killed when Darwin was standing right there. And the war probably could have been ended at that point, save that Darwin didn't immediately attack Murdoch (less self-preservation -- Dar seems to have an inadequate supply -- than simply being in shock), and Murdoch wasn't willing to kill a seventeen-year-old on the basis that he'd probably be a danger. That's a level of cold-blooded even he hasn't (quite) reached.

The relevant page is: http://www.sunsetgrillcomic.com/index.php?comic=2...

(OMG. The art SUCKS so, so badly. I hate looking at my archives....)

Oh... RARGH.

Yeah, I totally lost the color distinction in this one, didn't I? Buggery.

Oh well. This set of comics really broke my brain, which says more about the inadequacy of my brain than anything, I think... but if the lack of color coding is the biggest mistake I made, I can live with that. And learn from it. Which last bit is made possible only when someone points it out to me, so thank you for that. :P

Yes. I really need to start ID'ing these people in the story better. :)

Yup, that's her. She stuck the landing. :P

(She's been in a couple of pages since then actually -- Murdoch didn't do a lot more than bruise her, though I never covered that specifically. I'm just relieved that my last-minute conviction that no one would remember what Ellen looked like and thus I would have made a COMPLETELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE PAGE turned out to be sleep-deprived paranoia....)