OK, for this one I’ll have to go a bit into the timeline of its creation. I created this strip on May 13th, 2026 – ahead of the Soccer World Cup, the scandals connected to it or the huge scandal engulfing Gianni Infantino in its wake. So all of this was based purely on his track record of venality and greed even prior to that date. When the big scandal broke, I wasn’t sure whether I would have to pull the strip, because it might be a bit too topical…and then, at least for a while, it looked like Infantino would definitely have to resign, which would make the strip outdated. But Gianni managed to somehow hang on and keep up his struggle to make venality and greed the new standard, and the furor seems to have died down at least as far as the general public is concerned. So now I can run the strip on the planned date in it’s original form, as intended…but, somehow, I’m not really happy about that fact.

Fortunately for the Colonel, after having had to think about Infantino for quite a while, his mind then wanders to his former commanders, Herbert Horatio Kitchener and Charles George Gordon. Neither of whom might be a completely uncontroversial figure…but, in their defense, neither of them was Gianni Infantino. And if thinking of them always gives the Colonel a bit of a queer feeling, he never suspected either of anything along the lines of venality and greed. He had his suspicions, but they weren’t about venality or greed. And perhaps he is nobody to talk, since it’s noticeable that he remembers his former commanders wearing lingerie…and he probably saw them doing that a lot less frequently than he saw them wearing their uniform trousers. So he could remember them wearing trousers, if his brain really wanted to…

In the end, however, the Colonel’s memories of his departed commanders are even less useful than drunk Oda Nobunaga was on the other side, and the Colonel resigns himself to the most natural and obvious course of action, which is corruption.

More on Thursday.