Panel 1: Again, this does seem like a bit of an overreaction on the Bad Guys’ parts, here. Then again, when you’re carrying out Covert Sinister Shenanigans in a world that seems almost suspiciously skewed towards the dramatic spoiling of such schemes, leaning towards paranoia might well be a sensible stance.

Panel 3: I’ve long, long intended to address “Project Slappy” again at some point—in fact, the Brandon-Graham-drawn one-shot Internal Medicine was originally intended to involve Project-Slappy-related machinations, but I ran outta space to invoke this particular dangling plot thread.

-Adam Warren