At this point, it's escalated from "sneaky plan" to "racket".
"These shirts need to meet my rigorous standards. And if they don't, I have to bribe myself! That's not cheap!" is my favorite Kimberly line in Unlike Minerva.
This is one of the first scenes that I wrote. The stuff in between here and the beginning got shuffled around a lot, but Brisbane tossing away the hat was what got me writing this. Since I don't draw, it takes a bit of trying for me to design visual scenes like this, and Krishva nailed it.
This comic and the following one got shifted around in the Best-Of Run. They got put in with Kidneybone Morris, Pedro Bankersson, and all the other miscellaneous performers.
Yes, human pyramid. If I came up with a name for the anthropomorphic people, it'd probably sound ridiculous and slangy. So they refer to themselves as humans or people when it's unavoidable.
Hodges pt 8 drawn by Krishva