The tornado is extracted from this photo by Kaleb Tittle, released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. As such, this strip is also released under CC BY-SA.

Certain places and cultures have reputations for a laid-back approach to being on time.

On my recent trip to Peru and Ecuador, my Latin American Spanish phrasebook had the following handy hint about specifying time in Latin America:

It Will Never Catch On.

Ten years ago I visited the Isle of Capri, off the coast of Italy. The big tourist attraction there is the famous Grotta Azzurra, or Blue Grotto, which is a sea cave on one side of the island. The entrance above sea level is small - barely large enough for a rowboat ...

As I write this annotation, large regions of the United States have been and are being devastated by an unusual barrage of tornadoes. I wrote the script for this comic about two months earlier though, well before this unusual weather began.

I hope all of my readers in the affected regions, and your friends and families, are well.

Air. It's not wimpy.