Paul and I have been consistently producing two strips a week for the last 10 or so months. That’s roughly 80 times in a row that we’ve made our Sunday/Thursday at noon deadline. This is a significant source of pride for both of us, which is why I’m sorry to say that we’re not going to make our deadline today.

A confluence of events, not the least damaging of which was my sudden onset of “Travel-to-Californiatosis,” simply made keeping our schedule a physical impossibility. It’s worth pointing out that the only reason our last four updates were made on time is because Paul transformed himself into some kind of unstoppable force of comic-creation.

Every single reader of The Crooked Gremlins is important to us. You guys are the first of exactly two reasons why we make this strip (the second being that we really enjoy doing it). That’s why we’ve been so arduous about maintaining our update schedule; we don’t want to let you down.

We hope that the late strip won’t stop you from coming back. And everyone that ordered prints, don’t worry. They’re going in the mail today.