One of the key things to making this storyline work was to at least attempt humor at the end of most of its strips, even if it wound up having to be somewhat grim (such as the last panel of Strip #990).  Another key thing was to keep this storyline as short and compressed as possible.  And then, of course, the consequences of the events of the storyline would have to be important and reverberate up through the characters' futures, or else there would be no point to the whole thing at all.



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