This goes to show what sort of a protracted gestation period this strip had. These first strips were actually drawn sometime around 1999, so we’re looking at a world which was getting ready for a brand new century to begin. Bookstores were full of ‘millennium’ editions of pre-existing books. Millennium Bibles, Millennium dictionaries, Millennium books of Child Care, Millennium books of Princess Diana photos, Millennium survivalist manuals for when the Millennium Big caused the end of civilisation – you name it there, was an expensive violet and silver foil-blocked millennium edition of it…