Behold! Our fiftieth actual comic, and with guest art by Sarah's Girlfriend, no less! Isn't it lovely? I think it is. I don't think my lettering job really lives up to it, but what can you do? Try harder next time, is the answer. And I shall endeavor to do so.

I'm starting to suspect that Brighton might have a little bit of a crush on Melody. Don't ask me why I think that--I'm not certain myself. But there's just that niggling feeling, you know? Like there's some kind of subtext in all this. I'm sure there's some other language out there that has a single, concise word for "wholly unfounded suspicion that something is true". ...Wait. "Paranoia" is the word I'm looking for. Sort of. Not really. I may have to turn to another language after all.

Damned if I know which language, though. Japanese, maybe. It has some fun words. If nothing else, they have a succinct and slightly less abrupt way of saying "chicks with dicks" than English does. Also, if I recall correctly, they have a word for "a woman who looks attractive until she turns around". Which would be all kinds of useful, if only English were to club that word over its head and sneak it into our lexicon while it lay stunned.

Strangely, for a language that is a crossbred memetic mutation of myriad other tongues, English can sometimes find itself woefully lacking. It's a double-edged sword, really. English is a linguistic jack-of-all-trades, master of none. For all its flexibility, it doesn't go very deep. That's what she said. ...Ahem. Sorry about that. Anyway, it's really rather fortunate, because if everyone had the exact words at their fingertips to translate their thoughts into speech without any room for misunderstanding, most writers (like myself) would immediately be out of work. And being in the business of stringing words together wouldn't be near as much fun (read: hair-pullingly difficult, but in a kinky kind of way).

When it comes down to it, though, I'll be happy so long as I have the choice of saying "fucking awesome" instead of "doubleplus good". Variety is the spice of life and lexicography, after all.