142: Oh man. Okay so one of the sad things about returning to Question Duck ten years later, sometimes those stories didn't have the best endings. This strip came out at the peak of the "Arab Spring" where a lot of people were celebrating a wave of revolution in the mid east.

143: Comic book composition talk, you don't really want to do a tall panel to the right of two stacked short panels. (Invert that rule for Eastern comics.) The reader's eye will be drawn towards the tall panel on the right and skip the bottom left panel. Doubly so if it's silent.

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145: With apologies to Bill Waterson who probably is uninterested in products like a Microsoft Surface. Though it's worth noting at the time, I drew a LOT of these comics on a Toshiba Satellite which was a laptop where the screen could flip over and draw on it. It was... bulky.

146: I actually don't do hiking in the woods or anything like that...