Thanksgiving weekend seems like as appropriate a time as any to start rolling out the guest strips from readers we used to keep deadlines at bay, starting with this cute gag from “Twigs,” to use the commenter username.

After starting with a buffer of more than a full chapter, we were starting to need some kind of filler by the end of Chapter 5, and guest content was a grand old tradition of webcomics, albeit an eroding one. You’ll notice we only called for guest strips a few times and eventually resorted to other tricks to fill out our schedule, although John Waltrip’s faster working methods and freer workdays meant we had to do less of that anyway after Chapter 8.