Last week, I unfortunately ran into a hard drive failure which caused a significant slowdown in my system. I've spent the past week trying to get back up and running, but then hurricane Helene kinda knocked out my power for around 36 hours and pushed back a lot of the progress I gained. Fortunate for me, this relatively minor inconvenience was the worst I experienced and I'm exceptionally grateful for that. However, all of this has caused a slight delay in the comic, which I haven't had much time to work on in the past week. I should be able to get back to working on it this week, though. :)