Whoop, just found time in my packed schedule to squeeze this one out. As it were.

New character! I scratched my head for a while over who would make a good substitute teacher until Julian gets back - somebody old? Somebody new? Somebody who's already appeared in the comic? Somebody I just made up off the cuff? All of these have their own merits but in the end I've dredged up another character from an old superhero RPG. I have too many of these.

I'm not going to say anything more about him at this point.

I kind of shot myself in the foot with that third panel, though. Oh, sure, great idea to have things going on in the background! But where will the speech bubbles go? WHERE? Stupid backgrounds.