Sometimes events conspire so that all this comic’s mascots just naturally get pages to themselves. Other times, I have to make up something for the specific purpose of working them in. This is the latter.

(Historical Notes: If I ever DO manage to make my own line of Conventional Wisdom mascot plushies, there is a very real chance they’ll have more stubby, Hello Kitty-like proportions.  At least, the horrific, mutated first round of experiments will.  Future Me will probably end up with an entire room full of misshapen abominations, like some mad scientist dungeon.)