DiPerri: This strip is from 2017 and —
Oh, sorry. “Hello,” by the way. Frega just looked over, saw me typing this, and said “Oh, gosh. Is it Substack o’clock again?” Yup. Here we are again!
That strip is from 2017 and is a personal favorite example of the characters starting the strip before the strip starts. In earlier years I would have started that strip with Dr. Green’s line (“Your test results are in, Buddy.”) but in later years tried to fit side banter in.