John Wayne of the North West

I'm very thankful that Mary decided to cut me a break on this strip and scripted me a panel where all I had to draw was a door. And there's no horrible twist to this story, like 'and that ended up being the hardest panel to draw' because, well, quite frankly, it's a door, and they're not that difficult to do.
More and more lately, I've taken to drawing these while sitting in front of a mirror and pulling stupid faces, striking weird poses, etc, in order to get smaller details right. I'm still fluctuating on the size of people's eyes. Halifax's have come down a bit, but Holly's keep being very doe-like, and I can't seem to get her to look normal with smaller eyes right now. Halifax's glasses, for no real reason, have been slipping down his face more and more in recent strips (it's not like he needs those glasses that much, anyway -- he spent a couple of weeks without them in Year Zero and didn't seem put out by it.)
In case you're wondering, that's Halifax and Holly's bedroom they're in -- I think that it's been the room least featured in this comic, since the living room gets the most attention, together with a few appearances by the bathroom and the kitchen. Even Shakra's room was in it a few times (you can tell which one is Shakra's because it's painted red in there, while all the others are Everything Must Go blue.) And because I couldn't be bothered looking up reference, I just made up Halifax's room anew. It's a fair bet Holly shifted the furniture around when she moved in anyway, so there's no reason for me to be a stickler about these things.
The Amiga thing used to work, by the way: the best way to fix any hardware problem on an Amiga OS was to give the tower case a good smack. Amiga-types will notice I'm using the unofficial 'Boing Ball' logo for the machine, instead of the old Commodore tick logo or the stylised 'A' which, honestly, always struck me as rather unimaginative. The Boing Ball was my favourite, so that's the one that made the cut.

DVD EASTER EGGS:

Background paraphenalia from today's strip includes a Something Positive fan art piece I drew and the full game map from the NES classic 'Legend of Zelda', though only the right hand side of it is visible. The poster that's been ripped down off the wall is not meant to have been porn: it's meant to have been his old Ian Brady picture, which Holly found too creepy to have staring down while she slept, so she ordered it removed. The poster was obviously up to cover a hole Halifax has John Wayned into the wall for some reason.
The cactus on the window ledge is an unintentional John Wayne visual cue, and simply represents my inability to keep any of the cacti alive that I used to have. In immortalising them in comic form, perhaps I can redeem my deathbringing hands just a little.
Ormrod has used the old ten pound notes as photoref for putting his card together on his Apple Mac; like me, he probably Google Image Searched forbanknotes and couldn't find any current ones that don't have 'SPECIMEN' written across them. Also, Ormrod uses Comic Sans, which explains why he was an editor and not a designer.

And yes, Halifax actually needs a reminder tacked to the door to tell him to wear pants in the morning.