Comedy is All About Timing

Whenever there's a prominent death in the news, I always fear that I have something coming up in my strip that will seem inappropriate in light of it.

For example, during a week of strips where Rat was running for election against a dead U.S. senator, a U.S. senator died tragically in a plane crash.

Another example was in the summer of 2006, where one of my crocs was so annoyed by Steve Irwin's accent he hoped he would die.  Irwin died two months later.

So it would stand to reason that in a week li