returning to the "joke but not a joke" machismo well a lot in these early strips. pretty standard stuff for 2001.

Seymour the god botherer is showing up more for some pretty gentle ribbing of religion. "christians are well intentioned but can be annoying" is as critical as sinfest ever got, but that was enough to convince most readers this strip had an overtly liberal viewpoint back then

never thought about this, but how old is monique supposed to be? i always assumed she was an adult and slick was... not really a kid but some sort of metaphorical man baby? But the size of monique's big charlie brown head is making me see her as like 14 or something here

oh shit!!! a pop up video joke!!! kids today won't know this, but this was QUITE the cultural phenonemon in 2001

you can really see why sinfest made such a splash. Crisp clean artwork, newspaper-ready 4-panel format & consistent daily update schedule - Sinfest had an aura of professionalism that most other circa 2001 webcomics, which were mostly made by high school kids, did not