My announced plan had been for there to be an EGSNP tomorrow, but my weekend was a lot more stressful than I anticipated, and I've decided to listen to the many nice people telling me I can take more time off for the holidays if I need it.

Thank you for that, by the way. I really appreciate it.

I really don't want to take off the remainder of the year, however, so my intent is for things to resume on Friday. It's possible something could complicate that, but I'm going to make like weather forecaster and say, all things being equal, FRIDAY, darn it.

Now for this page's actual commentary:

I debated whether to have two panels of silence before "bwuh", or three. Three seemed to imply a SLIGHTLY longer pause then I wanted, so I went with two.

I assume someone somewhere is upset I didn't have a full page of silent Susans before "bwuh".

Behold my normal human writing:

My original approach to Larry bringing this up was a convoluted mess along the lines of

L: "Hey, that's an interesting deck."

S: "I didn't actually design it myself. Tensaided made it."

L: "I know of the one called Tensaided. He introduced me to your review show."

S: "Oh."

And so on.

Putting aside the awkwardness (made more awkward by Susan not even knowing if Larry knows Tensaided), it felt redundant. Decks have been commented on already, and we don't need that again in the story.

It made way more sense for this to be something that Larry wanted to say, but had to work up the nerve to say before Susan left AFTER their match was over. Commenting on the deck would likely be more of a first game thing, and it was awkward besides.

After the match was also the simplest way to do this scene, but I got hung up on other details that kept the obvious from being, well, obvious.

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- Saturday EGSNP