Unfortunately, our intrepid artist has spent the last several days getting cozy with a case of some truly heinous Crud From Hell. As a result, he has spent rather more time doing nasty things like coughing up bits of lung, and picking eyeball-boogers out of his lashes, than... oh... drawing a comic strip. Therefore, we've decided that we will show you what's been done thus far, and update the strip as new panels are completed. Our artist apologizes for the inconvenience, and regrets that it can't be Martian Flu...