Well, I was hoping to finish this by Christmas Day, but it seems to have slopped over onto Boxing Day by about an hour. Tant mieux, as they say…

The thing about this webcomic is that a lot of it is improvised on a daily basis: the reason this sequence was called “The Last Christmas Story” is that… well, it had a very different storyline in mind when I started it. Then, as things usually do, it changed directions, and before long, the whole reason for calling it The Last Christmas Story have gone flying out the window for a very long vacation. But the title stuck because it had to. So there we are. I think.

But I like where it wound up. It’s established a couple of nice little mysteries for the future — André’s father, for one, and André’s Rumanian birth name. We’ll take a look at those sometime down the road. For now, though, we’re gonna leave these two alone for a while. Today being Boxing Day, it’s one of Doc and Ray’s favourite holidays of the year (of course you knew that, right?), so we’ll have something to celebrate that. Then a bit of filler while we prep things for a new storyline.

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