An acquaintance of mine departed for the Great Sunny Spot in the Sky this week, so just for today, a pause in the "action". That's a young Crud the Gnoll, who went on to breed a killer bean and end up in SubShaft 44f. He remembered the depicted moment in this strip.Technically, I should have de-colorized it, but decided to leave it as-is. Don't draw any plot significance from that fact.
[This strip has been moved into logical order rather than order of publication.]