School started, and the comic took a back seat to everything, including showers. Remember items A, B, C, and D? Well, they have been brought together to form Item Seven. Item Seven is lower on the priority list than Advanced Placement Biology, a business manager position at the school newspaper, the lead role in the school play, an infinity of incredibly irritating college planning things, my senior pictures (which would, in a sane world, be the last thing on my mind), and everything else, including showers.

The comic itself, despite its position below personal hygiene, is still above Item Seven, which is why comic number seventy-nine will show up tomorrow morning. Comic number eighty would show up the day afterward, except that it is one of those huge, incredibly gratifying 21-panel suckers, and it won't be ready for a while. I think that, given the context, you can very easily discern what, if anything, the phrase "a while" means here.

This does not mean the comic is really going to slow down that much! Updates will probably be missed, but that will be rectified. We will get through this storyline. We will view the stunning battle between Jab Blaine and the replicant that has replaced him. We will eventually see Jab without a wig.

Or would you like something concrete? I'll give you something concrete. Comic number one hundred, the big triple digit, will appear on October Twenty-Eighth. Barring that, I will cease to exist.