Okay, here’s the situation. When I stopped doing the original Grimstone comic on KeenSpace, I had not yet finished the Count Cyanide & Toasty storyline. It stopped on August 8th. The rest of the strips in this storyline were not completed as part of that original run. When I began putting together the first book collection, From Here To Insanity, I decided I was going to finish that storyline. So the remaining pages of The Haunting of Count Cyanide were completed between late December 2005 and early January 2006. The first edition of the book, where they appeared for the first time, was available in February of 2006.

When the Grimstone website relaunched in March 2006, I did not have the old archive up yet and was not sure if I was going to put it up at all. I eventually decided to put all the old stuff up, including these remaining strips that had never been online. At the time, I could not post them with a recent date because they would have interrupted the current story and they would have all had the same date. I was originally going to post them with dates near to the dates they were completed on, but I ultimately decided to post them under the dates they would have originally been posted on had I finished the story back in 2003. So as you read these strips and, perhaps, notice the 2005/2006 copyrights with the 2003 post dates, just remember that the dates are ultimately meaningless and just allow me to keep things better organized. Which was another thing I disliked about the daily comic format, the constant association of comics with a particular date. I much prefer comic books, where I can just say issue 5 or whatever. (Yes, I know, comic book issues still have dates, but the issue number is used way more to identify them.)

Commentary written in 2006.