He is totally jossing people. It didn't help that this comic was *months* overdue, so we had some idea of the outcome because the other titles in line are actually coming out on time.

I'm thinking I can ignore it or work around it, because there are some serious problems in the believabilty (even for comics standards), including Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale).