So in the end, I decided to move the story along instead of a goofy monster strip for today. Said goofy monster strip is on the books for Friday. When I came up with the idea for this week's strips, I had the silly plan for today's third panel... I like doing the dropped out backgrounds dealy since I have the white space around my comic. So, having George peer around the curtain which in this case doubles as a defacto panel border... I just had to do it. I was also pondering combining today's and tomorrow's strips into a double-sized... but while they tie directly to each other... they have separate beats so it'd be kinda weird. So I decided to just spread them out across the two days-- which is much easier to justify with the five day a week schedule.