Seven hours late! I still don’t have a buffer. Also I don’t have time to come up with an original title to this strip, so here’s some random lyrics to “The Girl is Mine.” Because I apparently have already used that one.

On a somewhat related note, there will be no Mandrake & Friends on Saturday. I have at least one more scripted before the end of the storyline, but I confused myself with the timing. You’ll see.

This is another comic where there were a lot more words scripted, but I cut them because, once the pictures we down, they seemed unnecessary. Examples: Eskimo saying “Thank you!” in the final panel; Lance murmuring “Well…” in the first panel.

EAKIMO: Caryn made a pass at you? What have you got I haven’t got? Besides A GIRLFRIEND ALREADY. Or have you forgotten that detail?
LANCE: I didn’t forget.
Cut to Lance talking to Caryn
LANCE: But you know who you COULD ask?
Cut back
E: You didn’t!
Pause.
She throws her arms around him.