Oh… Oh dear… This is going to be BAD.

EDIT: I forgot to include a link to explain just what Layla’s talking about! Layla sums it up pretty well in Page 294. It’s mentioned WAY back in one of the first pages, too… but I try not to send people wading through all that bad art and walls of text if I can help it.

Originally, Layla’s face just got angrier and angrier with every panel, but then I realized that a totally blank expression would work better in the final panel. It’s like she can’t even BE angry at the moment because her brain’s having trouble processing what she just heard. (Okay, maybe a LITERAL blank was a bit much) That isn’t gonna last long, though, I can promise you that.

So, I’m in the final, desperate stages of getting ready for Anime Boston right now. I think I’ll be able to get Friday’s update covered no problem, but next Tuesday MIGHT be a problem. Since Anime Boston’s in, well, Boston, I’m not going to get back to DC until Monday, and I’ll have a monster Conventional Wisdom update to finish on top of everything. I’m TRYING to get next week’s page finished before I leave, but if it gets to be too much, I MIGHT end up posting an unfinished page come Tuesday. We’ll see what happens.

Speaking of which, vote for Far Out There on TWC and see the latest Killer Station of Deadly Doom, which contains a face not unlike the one I make every time I think about all the stuff I have to get done before I leave for the con…

(Historical Notes: Oh wow, it’ll REALLY take some restraint to save all my hindsight-fueled comments about that Boston trip for Conventional Wisdom, because there is a LOT to say… Instead, let me observe that, when I wrote this, I was fueled by that New media naivete about how Internet content creators were SOOO much better than all that lame stuff on TV… and now this joke could just as easily be about clickbait YouTube videos.)