For once, we’ve got a bunch of characters I honestly DIDN’T expect to work into some non-Christmas comics this year. We saw most of these people in last year’s parade, but then, as now, it was just a VERY early sneak peak of a future story. But hey, at least we know who Sophia and Claire are already.

And for those of you who can’t imagine what a bunch of handbells sound like, here ya go. (though I think Claire’s contribution probably sounds more like this)

(So, we now know who May and Mariska and Marshall are, and we’ve technically seen Ichabod’s mentors again too, but those random two dudes at the end have never showed up again.  It’s kind of hilarious, because I’ve come up with so many OTHER random Nitpickers since this comic that feeling like I needed to make up two random nobodies to fill out a line seems ludicrous now.)