What beautiful pages and an amazing dinosaur.  But enough about that, I have a lot to talk about so let’s go!  First of all, those are all real songs and here they are for your enjoyment if you don’t recognize them.  The first one is actually from one of my most favorite bands, and one of my most favorite albums (The Waterfall)

“Like a River” – My Morning Jacket
“Find the River” – R.E.M.
“Just Around the Riverbend” – Pocahontas
“Proud Mary” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Take Me to the River” – Talking Heads
“Rippy the Gator” – The Arrogant Worms

This week is Kyra’s birthday!  I started the comic on Sep 3 and later realized sure, that can be Kyra’s actual birthday too.  While she’s still “almost thirteen” in the comic, I’ve been working on it for seventeen years now.  GOSH!  And there’s still so much to do!  I have big plans for what happens after this chapter, but I probably won’t get to that until next year.  GOSH!  I’ll probably make some sort of birthday drawing this week too.

Next, apparently Aug 28 is “national big boob day” I guess.  Okay.  I was going to ignore it until I wondered – what would happen if somebody directly said it too Ann?  Naturally (heh) she would do what she always does and overwhelm you with her kindness.

And finally, I had something for this planned but haven’t had a good spot to put it into the actually comic.  I do now, but it’s still a few chapters away.  And so, because I can see you’re all so worried, at some point Kyra convinced Wild Stray to live with Ann where she spent rest of her life fat and lazy.