Hypocrite confession time!

Each year, I’m very annoyed with the short shrift afforded Thanksgiving.  Halloween’s the first “big” holiday for quite a while, and Christmas is hawked immediately afterward in all aspects of consumer culture.

I’ve always felt personally that there are few holidays with a better reason for existence than Thanksgiving, and I hate the tendency to blow it off.

So what did I do this year?  Danged if I didn’t think up a fun, month-long storyline for Halloween, and then forget somehow that updating on Thursdays would give me the opportunity for a Thanksgiving strip!  The coincidence that this little epilogue fell on that day adds the irony.

I could justify it by saying that with only two updates a week, there’s not time to develop much of a storyline for Thanksgiving.  Or that “scariness” is a much easier and broader topic to deal with than “gratitude” in a comic strip where (presumably) the animal characters don’t actually celebrate the specific holidays.

But the real truth is I just forgot.  So, I want to make sure I take this opportunity to say that I’m thankful for the people who read the comic, and for the feedback you give.  Why not turn this into a sitcom-episode exercise?  What are you thankful for?