With Halloween safely in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to turn to Gregory’s big presentation, as misleadingly announced for Monday.

Needless to say, it works a lot better when you’re not in the Twilight Zone. In fact, the only thing that might embarrass Gregory about this iteration is the fact that the string of events he’s getting the audience caught up on…
…is nothing more than the bog-standard for the genre. At the very end, I felt I had to stay true to the genre, so Mopey leads a final gathering of the ultimate reserves of resolve, another level of empowerment ensues, and ultimately the whole universe is bathed in unlimited love until everything is right and good again. Even the villain, who actually wasn’t right and good to begin with. Doing it in a flashback makes it a little less cringey, I hope.

As usual, “everything right and good” doesn’t necessarily cover the long-term unintended consequences. Like, how will the universe make do without the Creeping Chaos? Won’t removing that kind of ever-present, ubiquitous force have all kind of destabilizing effects on a universal order that was used to its existence for millennia?

How will Mopey’s personality develop, now that she’s canonically got not a single fragment of love or goodness left? Will everyone be okay if I just drop the issue without comment, and field “B-movie continuity” in my defense? Mopey didn’t seem particularly evil in the strips preceding this one…her level of callousness towards Snuka’s injuries was perfectly normal. For her, I mean. >_>

And how will I keep carrying on without censorship bars? In this strip alone I had two panels where I would have needed them. In these cases I managed to cheat my way around the issue, but is that a long-term strategy?

So yeah, I’ve got more questions than answers after this. But…Latho looks really happy. That must count for something, right?

More on Monday.