( _ ) …it’s an eyeless crying emoji. I’m sure it’ll catch on, right?

My notes reveal that I came up with the core of this strip – namely that last line – in the pub, long before I started Brain Fist. Snippets like that can hang around for years in notebooks or word files until I figure out exactly where they belong.

Well that’s okay then.

Cats! Aren’t they just adorable?

Merry Christmas Everybody! I actually shifted this strip slightly earlier into the series than where it originally appeared back in 2005, since I figured it makes more sense to line it up with Christmas than have it appear randomly sometime in February.