Virtual time travel.

In real life, it was more than three months. Here, you just click and a link and--bam! It's fall semester! My life is flying by too fast as it is, thank you very much. Good thing I have these strips to keep me firmly rooted in the past. As you can see, I'm merely setting up the dynamic once again--Beagle, the reserved, bookish one, and his obnoxious, cooler-than-thou roommate Nick. I knew roughly 1/4 of my audience would be brand new every August--thus, it was necessary to reintroduce the cast year after year. Who am I kidding--even faithful readers of the strip probably couldn't name the main characters if they had a gun to their head.