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For some reason, the commentary for this strip was never uploaded.

Reader Brunnen-G writes:

The dialogue in the last panel, "Any questions?" "Yes, where are our legs?" comes directly from "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea", one of my favourite episodes of the Goon Show. The Goon Show was a classic (many would say THE classic) British comedy series. It was a radio show in the '50s featuring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers and if you don't know who any of those people are, your life is a colossal unknown tragedy. I can't even look at my own stupid cartoon without hearing those lines in the appropriate voices and cracking up all over again. Ah, in-jokes.

I put the line in there because I can't draw legs at all. I have to hide people behind furniture or have their lower bodies just fade out mysteriously. The alternative is to have them walking around on two mismatched, weirdly proportioned stalks. If I ever do a webcomic, it will have to be based in a culture where everybody wears floor-length robes.

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