#6 Kirk

COMMENTARY:
You know those people who get on email for the first time in months and send you all those forwards, as if you haven't seen them ten times? Even worse: they send you the same forward they sent you a few months ago! I think Hamlet would be that kind of person.

This comic was written in honor of Lady Jane Scarlett's International Pirates For Picard Day. (By the way, Pickles doesn't claim to speak for all pirates, but he is definitely a Captain Janeway kind of guy.)

It's probably just my imagination, but I swear Pickles's expression changes in the last panel.

#5 Girlfriend

COMMENTARY:
I spent almost an hour trying to get the panels to line up straight. I hate being web-incontinent. I suppose it's kind of cool in a staggered look, but trust me: this will drive me crazy for days until I figure out how to do it right. I won't change it, though. Let it stand as a testament to my idiocy. (Update: right now it looks fine in Explorer and fragged in Firefox. I give up)

I put the archives down at the bottom. They don't look exactly the way I want it to, but at least there's only one comic per page now. That's how other web comics do it.

As for content, this is a pretty cheap mother joke, but one I'm confident Pickles would make. The real question will be when/if Hamlet's mother actually shows up. Drama!