Original Commentary
To be more precise, You Say it First starts with Unlike Minerva being disassembled. That grey fellow is Goliath, who oversaw the day-to-day operations of the theatre.

Modern Commentary
Goliath was one of those characters who I never quite found a place for. He was prominently featured in the various planning documents for Unlike Minerva and on paper he was important, but he barely showed up in the comic itself. This is Goliath's last speaking appearance. He showed up again in the background of a flashback a year later. Dude didn't even get a mention in the ten-year reunion.
After Unlike Minerva, I had a rule: "No work means no work". If I don't have anything for a character, they don't show up. This was because in Unlike Minerva, Caleb (who shows up next comic) had this whole set of obsessions - "the outside world doesn't exist", "I don't know what a woman is". After correcting him two or three times and not getting through, Brisbane and Kimberly just kinda...stopped correcting him. They had their own thing going on and no real reason to care about his delusions. But I had Caleb show up every few weeks just to remind readers that he was around. So I decided I wasn't going to do that again. - Terrence