Original Commentary
I was sure that Emily mentioned going out with Rod some time during year one. I can't find it right now. Anyhow, after the second comic in the arc, it pretty much had to end like this. So, will David ever show up again? I'm considering it - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I've probably mentioned it before, but I don't care for Marmaduke. I don't understand how they got seventy years of material out of "Dog is big".

I started Unlike Minerva for a variety of reasons. One of them is that I felt newspaper comics were stagnant and I could do things differently and better. I was in my early 20s, which is a good time to have such thoughts. I have generally been disabused of that notion; telling ongoing stories is more difficult than it looked. My weird comic didn't take the world by storm. I'm glad we tried, though. You have to try doing things.

But also, Marmaduke is pure hackery - Terrence