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I have been summoned for jury duty. I've moved it to the start of the new year, but while I deliberate in seclusion with my fellow judicial citizens, regular comic publication will be suspended on the site, otherwise at some point two months later I'll have to cut a story in two. Best just to synchronise my pause with actual time out of the studio.

Hopefully it will only be the standard two weeks. During this time I have three options: publish nothing, run re-runs, or use my Christmas break to get ahead (of the law). The third option sounds great but three (four?) spirits appeared and told me not to do it.

I'm not pleased about having to revert to reruns so quickly, to the extent that I considered paying someone to draw a few weeks of material (that I had written) so I wouldn't have to. But one spirit (representing my 1970s-style bank manager) told me not to do it unless I won on a scratcher in the meantime.

So my question is, what can I re-run that will last 2 or possibly 3 weeks (plus I can use the two Christmas weeks off, so 4-5 I guess)? Obviously I'd add cheerful commentary eg "this page was drawn after I was hit in the head with a boomerang and boy does it show" or "I sold the original art for this page and bought a boomerang with it then chucked it but it came back and hit me in the head again". Not all my anecdotes will be about boomerangs.

Feel free to nominate stories that you'd like me to annotate. Nothing too recent, obviously, but nothing from the truly dim and distant past either. Nothing pre-2008/9, I would say. Your suggestions will all be considered. If you would prefer next year to start with a refreshing and boomerang-free hiatus, now's your time to advocate for your preference.

Thank you for reading this missive from the Roor Joor.

NOTE: After looking for this image just now, I was astonished to find that my jury service will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the airing of the episode of 30 Rock featuring the Rural Juror! How auspicious... for justice.