2008's first strip is a rather self-referential one so let me explain it a bit.
Since highschool I used to base my "near future" stories in the year 2008. Back in 1994 I made a futuristic Bad-Luck Petrova story based on this year. It featured future versions of my characters including me being some kind of Indiana Jones, Chris being an artist and George working for NASA. Later on, between 1998 and 2001 I based my superhero universe in 2008 as well. You can see now how important this year is for me and my universe. For some reason, and for the past 15 years, 2008 had a sense of a new beginning for me. A notion of a "new age". This is my year and I'd like to share it with all of you.
Happy new year, everybody.