(Historical Notes: Okay, I totally get why Past Me didn’t want to draw a whole panel of art for every speech bubble here, especially given what we eventually find out about this whole plot, but I really wish there was SOMETHING filling up that empty space on the rest of the page.  The regular comic that went up the same day as this must have been more complicated than usual, because this totally looks like the kind of page I’d draw when I needed to save time on something.)