The raw art of this strip was up as a placeholder while the the strip was being finished.
otaku = fanboy

Piro speaks:
Consider the bemusement and inner tug you might have when you could actually draw it. Not that i would. Not really. I mean, when you are drawing the entire character head to toe you do sort of have to draw the body first...
http://www.megatokyo.com/scr33n/scr33n_2008-07-19_44929.png
(part of some studies i was doing to work on a character stance for a figure)

Piro tweets: here is a sketch i did of Miho back in August that i went back to as reference for the middle frame in currnt comic: http://is.gd/jHeq

Piro tweets: Here's a screenshot of scrivener as i have it set up, sort of, for the last comic: http://is.gd/l78E (note that this was a prelim script)