A slow news week lends pause for the introduction of a new character. I can’t believe how long these strips are taking to produce. It certainly doesn’t look like it takes more than five minutes, but if you only knew. I’m embarrassed to say how long this one took in total. Yikes. Oh well, welcome, N00B!

Update 2/20/2010:

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Mari’s dramatic reading.