Okay. Toss out everything I just said yesterday concerning Sluggy Freelance. After having a huge build-up, including a suggestive fade showing that the previous timeline was coming to an end, Pete Abrams just flip-flopped on the plot and decided to have Riff not change the future. Instead, we’re given a couple brief images of a still-living Zoë and will then have Riff tossed into the future by his alternative self (of his own free will). This doesn’t mean that Riff didn’t scan Zoë or (depending on how it’s done) implanted a biochip into Zoë so she’d survive being flambéd by Oasis, but we don’t get to watch this or even see a hint that it was done. All I know is that it’s a##-pulls like this that turned me off of Sluggy Freelance six years ago. And while Abrams may have salvaged two years of character development for Torg and crew, that doesn’t lessen my disappointment at Abrams in screwing with his readership, and abandoning stillborn a time-travel storyline that could have been interesting, especially if he’d not followed in the footsteps of That Which Redeems.