Pillow-Biters Anonymous

The return of the horrible orange couch. Due to continuity constraints, Halifax is forced to keep wearing his silly homage to Ranma Saotome. Mark's Kulilin Dragonball shirt plods on. I really don't think clothing choices through -- I had to keep pissing about with that same Dragonball image I'd drawn in order to lay it over his shirt each time he appeared. Halifax looks vaguely stupid once over in that shirt, and beyond that he just starts to look mad. And in fact, looking at them now in terms of continuity, Mark does appear to have shaved his arms since the last strip. D'oh.
If you're wondering, the person on the picture behind Holly is Rumiko Takahashi, the wonderful manga artist behind Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, and more recently, Inu-Yasha. She's remarkable for several dozen reasons. Principle among them are her massive output -- week in, week out, and all on deadline (surprising for manga, apparently); her success in a male-dominated field -- she's sold over a hundred million books. 100,000,000. That's the equivalent of every single person in Japan owning one of her books. And that kind of popularity leads to her wealth -- she's a multi-millionaire. She's a writer and artist of comics almost exclusively for Shonen Sunday, a boy's comics magazine. And she's a multi-millionaire. She has fame that American comic book creators can only dream of. Plus she's funnier, cooler, wittier, more talented and more creative than most people in the business.

Best bits: The second panel (it took bloody ages); minimalistic backgrounds that look like a house without distracting the eye.
Worst bits: Honey; Mark's mysterious hair loss.