Far Out There

Man, this page kicked my everlovin’ BUTT. I just kept finding more and more things that needed fixing, and every one I fixed revealed something ELSE that was wrong, until eventually I was too behind schedule to work on the page anymore. Dang it, every year I say I’m gonna get the Christmas stuff finished ahead of time to avoid these situations…

But yeah, now we have the OTHER reason I do these things every year: an out-of-continuity story gives me a chance to drag out all the secondary characters I’m TOTALLY GONNA USE IN A FUTURE STORY SOMETIME I REALLY MEAN IT GUYS and remind you all that they exist. Actually, I toyed with the idea of showing Vashti as one of the performers at Disonar’s concert, but it didn’t seem like a good idea. For one thing, she’s been built up as such a big deal that it’d be hard to buy her playing a super sketchy “charity event” like that. And anyway, Vashti’s been popping up in the background long enough that her first “real” appearance would demand more fanfare than a cameo there would allow.

And just in case you were wondering I’d imagine Vashti’s Christmas song probably sounds a little bit like this. (though, just between you and me, I’ve always imagined Vashti’s music sounding more like Queen’s most pompous moments)

(Historical Notes: It’s been rightly pointed out that I did an an ABNORMALLY large amount of 4th wall breaking with this set of comics.  Looking back, I’m not sure I approve of this many meta-jokes all in a row.)