"Okay, see, I'm an idiot. 'Oh, I know! I'll put in my own versions of all these Hobbit things during VM's monologue! That'll be cute!'... forgetting, of course, that I'm this obsessive nut-job that'll spend hours and hours on a single image that will only ever be seen once, and which will be so scaled-down that all the detail will be lost. I swear, I should have just used a picture of Trogdor and said 'good enough! Now I can sleep today!'".

"Ah, well. Anyways, the strip's on time, and I got five characters into one panel. Two personal victories. Huzzah for the strip-maker"!

"Also, you may have noticed I've changed the dimensions of the comic with this one. Why? Well, simple answer: In the event that I should ever want for a print version of this fucker to exist (a guy can dream), certain dimensions are going to have to be conformed-to. The sooner that happens is the fewer strips I'd have to redo in that crazy, fantasy-land scenario".