My notes reveal that this strip was originally published the week that The Rule of Death debuted at Serializer.net. If anyone’s never given Rule a try, you can now read the whole series right here at E-merl.

Tom cats, man. They’re the worst.

Obviously.

There’s some kind of joke about a phantom pregnancy waiting to be made here, but the precise configuration of it eludes me.

She does, always. My notes for this strip state that “you can only get away with a strip like this every now and again, I think. So this is me getting away with it.” Well played, past me.