2012 was a painful year .....this works captures that feeling.....I wish everyone a joyous 2013....

I'd like to thank this thread for giving me a lovely nightmare, which involved my trying to warn Heather and AF about Courtney posing as Guardian.

Also--and this will probably sound terrible--but I should mention that AF # 12 is one of those comics that comes to mind often, quote-wise. I'm a king of quotes in my daily life (movies, TV, comics).

So, whenever I see a countdown of some sort (usually the microwave), I find myself thinking, "I'd say I've got about...ten seconds.".

Also, whenever I'm just on the edge of being late for something, or trying to do something very precise, I think, "But it's still overheating. I may not..."

In the last panel, the three are in the mess hall, at the same table, where the Chaplain says "Pass the salt," in quotes, and the Captain says "It's the way he says it."

Classic example of the kind of gag that can really only be done in a medium like comics.