Weed Improves Your Ability To Remember... stuff

We're slowly moving toward the final act of this year's story, as stated by Halifax in this strip from a couple of months ago, though the further into this story we get, the more complex it becomes. It's got to the point when every three or four strips, Mary and I have to sit down and rejig the order of the coming parts, add new strips to the storyline, merge some together... we've got a plan, though, and save the kind of minor rethinks I just mentioned, we're mostly set from now until the end of the year.
Although I'm trying to cut back on making explicit, important references to things from last year's comics (because, to be honest, I'd prefer it if you didn't have to read them to understand what's going on in this year's story) the line at the end of today's was too much fun to resist. As a concession to people who might not have read last year's, I added the 'Smokestack' line to make it more clear just who Halifax is referring to. And if you still don't know, then, well, you should.

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In addition to working on 'Shit Happens', I've got a side-project called Fred Basset Upfucked which is a daily remix of the long-running English cartoon strip 'Fred Basset', featured in the Daily Mail. The real strip has literally never been funny, so I decided to start rewriting the speech in it to make it funny. And I also turned the dog into Hitler's reincarnation, because he's of similar political opinions to the Daily Mail.
'Fred Basset Upfucked' was even mentioned on Warren Ellis's Blog the other day. Which was nice.

I'm also working on a couple of ideas -- the return of the Magnificent Five, probably as another seven- to ten-part self-contained story. It'll run parallel to Shit Happens this time, not instead of it, if and when I get around to it.