Yeah, kind of a low-key Christmas story this year, but the times seemed to ask for it. And David — everyone’s favourite fuckbuddy — has been kinda languishing in need of a storyline, so… Originally, this was going to be much weirder, by the way: Noel was actually going to be an elf — but somehow it just didnt feel right, not for a couple of lonely people just trying to get past the holiday in one piece. Will anything come of it? I guess we’ll see in a couple of months.

So, at the rate I’m going, this will be a record year for the strip: between this and the Secret Page, over 550 cartoons of one form or another were put out there for my lucky twelve readers. Add in the mniscellanea that comes with having this strip around at other sites, and we pushed well over 600, I think.

But the best thing about 2017 was, for me anyway, the storylines: sometimes ridiculous, sometimes near-tragic, sometimes just quiet and contemplative. It’s awesome to realize that, thirty years into this thing, I’ve gotten it to a style that I really like. Hopefully you do as well. As for the coming year, well, at this pace, we’ll probably hit the magic number 5,000 about this time in 2018. I have no idea how I’m celebrating that. But I will, trust me. We long passed the record for sheer volume and longevity for an LGBTQ cartoon strip, but hitting that number will be pretty damn golden.

Okay, a bit of time stepping, then the New Year’s, where we can catch up with Ray’s progress s well as find out how little Raymond’s school deals with…. well, you’ll see. 🙂