Commentary

Visually, I really love this one.  After what I felt was kind of a visually bankrupt previous strip, I really wanted to do something different with this one.  With the action being outside of Valhalla and not featuring any of the Fogeys, the opportunity was certainly there.  

Dictator Tot's exit was a long time coming.  Originally, she was only supposed to be in Chapter 3.  But then, chapter 3 got split in half and she practically became a part of the cast for as long as she stuck around!  

Readers with long memories will recall that Gene was formerly a guard at the prison (Hel) where Dictator Tot spends most of her days.  He was fired for introducing DT to Black Sabbath, thus the Ozzy Osbourne reference at the end here.  

Oh, and that's a gigantically drawn Warden in the window of the van there.  I don't know why he's so big.  I screwed up.

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