Sorry about the week's delay. Things were hellish for me for a while, and we needed the buffer space to keep things rolling. Doug's supposed to explain The Plot Device and all, (if he ever gets around to it *wink wink nudge nudge*) so I'll leave all important details like that to him. :)

*Pity Party Begin* I am a bad person. I am a very bad person. I have been slacking off in my duties of maintaining half of this comic and am very sorry. I'm a miserable talantless hack, and nobody should like me.

*pity party ends*

Ahem. It should be no secret that many web comics these days aspire to be the next Megatokyo. I figure that if I start off with the extreme self-depreciation, the 1337 mad skillz will be sure to follow. It could work, and it's certainly easier than trying to develop real talent (oops, there I go again).

Anyway, I decided that it might be a good idea to dole out a few of the more important minor details about the setting now, because at the rate we're producing comics, it's going to be a while before they are brought to light in-story.

'CDU' is the abbreviation for 'Cross Dimensional University.' There are an endless number of dimensions in existance, and all of the infinite multiverses of the macrocosm touch so that the multitude forms an �‡, with CDU's dimension situated in the very middle. Dimensional travel is easy, but not universal. Davery is from 'our' Earth, which has been in dimensional contact for some time, but has never really caught on to the whole dimensional multiculturalism thing, and is rather isolationist (and has gotten kind of a backwater reputation because of it). Sounds complicated, doesn't it? And the reason for the needlessly complex backstory (besides the fact that I love to hear myself type)? Well, I'm lazy.

Karen and I had been bouncing webcomic ideas around for a while. We already had quite an ensemble 'crew' of various characters, and 'wacky college adventures' are always a good starting point. The only problem was how do to get a cast as varied as a 'normal' humans, catgirls, anthromorphic tiger, foxes, and rabbits (oh my!) and even stranger all at the same college?

Enter...THE PLOT DEVICE! Whenever something unusual happens, it's because it came from another dimension. No fuss, no mess, no undo intellectual exertions on my part. Since CDU is the largest intitution of higher learning in the macrocosm, it requires no great conincidences to bring everyone together into the same place.

Ah, it's good to be the deus ex machina.