Original Commentary
During most of Unlike Minerva, Brisbane kept thinking Kimberly was trying to swindle him. Truth is, he didn't have that much to be swindled out of.

Modern Commentary
Five years? I mean, Unlike Minerva started in 1999 and it's 2004 now. On the other hand, Sofia was 17 in the last comic and I'm pretty sure she wasn't 12 when she arrived; Caleb kept hitting on her and someone would've said something.
Isabel's comic, Namir Deiter, was in real-time. Here in You Say it First, time passes when we tell it to.
We're not terribly interested in building a strict chronology and figure our readers don't expect it from us. I had kinda envisioned Brisbane's time in the Minerva Theatre as being about a year, and I don't think I've been at all consistent about it. - Terrence