OK, let’s start catching up with all this. I’ve taken a week off from work, have completed all my Hastleons and drawing obligations for the week, and can spend an evening making a dent in the backlog of posts I have to make here. I’ll be posting this as if it had been put up on its GoComics publication date, but it’s actually going up here two months late. I know. Sorry.

Still, aside from all the political madness that’s been going on here, there have been a few developments happening in Smith towers too. This strip is what started it all…

Hastings Pier was a tatty hulk by the time it burned down in a suspected arson attack in 2010. It’s taken six years to compulsorily purchase the pier back from Ravenclaw, the shadowy Panamainian company that owned it, strip the pier down to its shell and then rebuild it again. And this was the week on which it finally reopened.

Find out more about the pier here.