
The art used in Panel 3 today was the work of another participant in 24 Hour Comic day this year. “Liquid” here pronounced this little guy’s name as “Mr. Rice”, but spelled it as seen in the panel. I don’t know WHY. 24 Hour Comic day makes for some strange stories.
As for me using it, I was just SO tired of constantly re-explaining things, that I decided to just get weird for a day and not worry about it. Sometimes, the depth of the plots can become cumbersome when they need to be explained to more than one character.