I’m kind of surprised that anyone thinks the strip HAS taken a turn towards the darker side though. This strip has ALWAYS been full of dark humor and sexual references.

Before my hiatus, I talked about porn, killed a character, lit him on fire, shot his charred remains out of a cannon, talked about small penises, revealed that a little kid was straight up forgotten for five years by his parents, and inferred that that same little kid glued himself to Shawn’s porno watching chair with used Vaseline while they read the title to Backdoor Nymphomaniacs 10.

Maybe it’s just more rapid fire now. Before there were cute alien kidnappings or slave prisoner clones or vaguely offensive religious jokes sprinkled in between. I’m glad you guys are digging the humor still though. The overall sentiment is generally that the humor is still what it was before. Hopefully that’s a good thing.

By the way, it’s probably for the best that I’m not running Google Ad Sense yet… I can only imagine the sort of ads that would be popping up right about now.

Anyway, thought you all might enjoy an image taken from my scratch notepad while trying to work through the storyline where Shawn tries to dispose of Crystal’s body.

And then Kaigon walks in, and Shawn looks abashed and says “Oh, hey, Kaigon. Didn’t expect you back so soon. So… how was church?”

And then he holds up the charred skull towards Kaigon and and says “Don’t be rude. Say hi to Crystal!”

But then I remembered that Kaigon doesn’t go to church, so I had to do something else.

Sorry all. See you next Monday.