The strip really started stretching its muscles in 2009. Yes, we still had the single-panels that had been its hallmark, but now we also saw the first steps in what were to become multi-year story archs. This was the year we introduced Obama into the cast, Elliot hooked up with Gilles, Raider was gay-bashed in an alley, Kai went off to Afghanistan, and Brad Pitt and Hugh Jackman kissed. But this was only the start of many, many things to come…