We are back to gag-a-week humor with today’s strip, which appears in black and white right now, because my asthma has been terrible lately. Sorry. I will color it soon [editor’s note: this didn’t happen].

If anyone takes this as a slam on #inktober, they are mistaken. I like that hashtag. But there are a lot of hashtags out there to promote oneself with, and I sometimes find it wearying.