Hazel used to hug her dolls a bit tight. 

This original comic was preceded by a SLEW of great guest comics while I was out on a big American adventure! Here's a bunch of links to all of the guest spots, or you can just click the first one (David Willis's) and keep hitting "next":

• Guest strips by David Willis!
• Guest strips by Lucy Bellwood!
• Guest strips by Jakface!
• Guest strips by Randy Milholland!
• Guest strips by Bill Ellis & Dani O'Brien!
• Guest strips by Lar deSouza!

There's some substantial Carol content in these! Most of them have extra bonus hover text, too. :)

Here's the old one of today's og post, and since I'm working on other Elephant Town stuff right now, here's a link to the gardening post I made this week instead, for my fellow plant nerds. You'll learn how to turn flowers into pumpkins, a magic trick which I did not realize I was casting.