 The Minerva Theatre has a collection of spare props and costumes. This is so I'd have an explanation for where this stuff came from, and at the time I felt that I'd have to have a good explanation.
 I'm not really sure where I was going with this one. I mean, it's obvious that Brisbane and Peter are out of there element, but a two-panel pause seems a bit much. Especially with a punchline like that.
 Goliath is the manager of the place. Not the owner, though. And he already knows that Brisbane doesn't have an act. These metatextual "who's writing this" jokes are hard to pull off, and I'm not sure I did.
 I remember showing these scripts to a group of cartoonists. Darren Bleuel said it'd make more sense if there were such a thing as horse staples. In retrospect, I don't think even that could've saved this week. It was slow-moving and weak. It didn't set anything up and I wonder why I ran it. I'm wrote a lot of things before the comic aired; most of them didn't survive make it, but I must've had something better.
 They're like regular staples, only larger. I think. Or there's no such thing.
 The random spelling of words is based on a character from the book Midaq Alley, which I was reading for History of Northern Africa at the time. It was originally in Arabic, if I recall, and he would occasionally spell words in English to show off how well-educated he was. The effect, when everything is translated into English, is downright surreal. That's why I borrowed it.
Writer's Block drawn by Jeff Robinson, Cyber Hare
   
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