Com'c #158

Woah, vote a minute...

Commentary

"Wait, what? What's this? A guest str'p or something?"

I realized early in the process (before I even got to the computer) that I'd need to bust the format a bit to pull off this joke, and that I'd need tons of new drawings. So I decided to draw it by hand (and trace/fix it up in GIMP), using a full-page layout only partially in touch with the usual art style.

This str'p took me about eight hours or so to make, comparable to the anniversary special, so it's two and a half hours late as of this writing even though I started around 1 PM (about three hours before the usual time I start making a str'p). It was a lot of time-consuming (but enjoyable) work.

So naturally, this is not a permanent change. (At least not yet!) More str'ps like these may appear in the future, but they will be rare.

The str'p itself was inspired by the Monty Hall problem and the game show the problem was inspired by (and named after the host of). However, I'd like to point out that the host in the str'p (who until I wrote "the host in the str'p" was unnamed, but who now is called Malcolm) is not based on any host of Let's Make a Deal. Also, due in part to the fact that the offer in the Monty Hall problem was never used in the show, the str'p wound up with little to do with the problem.