Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
Comic strip for January 8 2024.
PANEL ONE: Erlak faces Nizini on the Mountains of the Gods. ERLAK: Hey, Zeen, I've just got a great idea about how I can win Conniff over! NIZINI: Uh-oh. PANEL TWO: Close on Erlak. ERLAK: See, I'll leave her a gift but with a note saying it's from a secret admirer. And she'll wonder who the secret admirer is. PANEL THREE: Erlak wanders away, still talking. ERLAK: And maybe she'll ask Thrumger and he'll say it's not him. At least, he'd better, 'cause if not, you know, he'd be lying. And then when I finally reveal it was me she'll be like, “Oh, Erlak! I never would have guessed!” And... PANEL FOUR: Nizini continues to look in the direction Erlak went. PANEL FIVE: Nizini starts to turn. NIZINI: I am often disturbed by the similarities between gods and children.
January 8 2024

Well, heck, I blew it again. Last week I went ahead and updated and uploaded a full week's worth of strips, figuring that sometime in the following week I'd do another week's worth of strips and keep ahead of things. And then I... didn't do that. I'm still catching up with things I'm behind on from what I was busy with over the holidays, and I guess it slipped by me and I forgot until today, and didn't get this strip up until a couple of hours before midnight. Oops. Anyway, I went ahead and got the whole next week's worth of strips up today as well, and within the next week I'll remember to do the next. (Also, I've still really got to get on finishing some new strips...)