I talked with Brian and he was cool with Brett making an appearance. If I had to, I could have done this arc with only seeing him in silhouette over the shoulder or something, but Brian was okay with having him appear "on screen".

There's only a few strips left in this arc so we'll get to a stopping place before too long and on to other things. I'm finally at a place that I'm fairly happy with in another arc that I might start it back up... we'll see.