Jeremy: Hey look! it’s part of the Bros.’ green van peeking its butt-side out from around the panel gutter. maybe some day we’ll see what the van actually looks like in its entirety.  We can always hope…

4 panels in today’s strip, you say?  Wow.  We’re really pushing the comic strip format boundaries here for the Ouro Bros.  Either that, or Jeff is just a little too wordy with his word spout.

And it seems that Balthazar is actually pretty handy with the mechanics of motor vehicles.  That would make him the exact opposite of me in that regard.  Actually, that would make him the exact opposite of everyone in my band.  We were certainly an inept bunch of doofuses when it came to vehicle repairs.  “Where’s that smoke coming from?” “I dunno… must be a badger with a pack of cigarettes under the hood.  Hey… Which one of you guys decided it was a good idea to give the Hood Badger a pack of cigarettes?!”

Jeff: (sigh.) Fine, Jeremy. Leave it to me to mention the 500-pound gorillaphant in the room. The personal tension leading up to the publication of this strip has been pretty high for me, because this strip features a cameo appearance by someone in real life. The idea was to do a recognizable depiction for people who know him, but still funny, so people who don’t will still laugh. So, after all this time, I gotta ask: Shadow, whaddaya think…?

Hmm…now that I think about it, I was worried all this time about a dog’s opinion. Man, I need to relax a bit.

Jeremy: Personally, Jeff, I’m a little offended that you would refer to our friend as a 500-pound gorillaphant.  Sure, he beats his chest a lot, and his ears and teeth are HUGE, but his skin is neither gray and wrinkled, nor is his body entirely covered by hair.  His knuckles do drag a little bit, though, but I think that’s just because his posture is so bad from hunching over his laptop/data device…