This strip was difficult to lay out, and I am not too satisfied with the final product. The problem, clearly, is that it features seven people either speaking or interjecting, far too many for a conventional layout. In fact, insofar as I can recall, this is the first time characters have ever overlapped each other.* Ideally, this particular strip would be best presented in a series of rapid-fire one-liners, but that simply cannot be done. So you get this instead. One possible solution, by the bye, might have been to lift lines and transfer them all to two or three characters. Usually, if it is only one or two lines, I do that, to save a lot of space. However, the effect would be totally different. Brief military history time (someone correct me if I err; I write mainly from memory): The title, for those who do not know their history, refers to Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Caesar (at the time, a proconsul) waged the appropriately-named Gallic Wars against the region's inhabitants. Though powerful, the Roman army was roughly evenly matched; the Gauls had numbers and ferocity on their side. Caesar's overarching military strategy was one of "divide and conquer"; this was particularly effective because the region was organized into a multitude of tribes as opposed to any formal government. Said tribes did, however, share culture; there were three primary cultural-ethnic groups in the region: Belgae in the north, Celts in the middle, Aquitani in the southwest. Caesar's strategy of dividing and conquering worked well; his campaign was successful after nine years. (On the tenth, riding the success of his conquest, he brought the legions back to Rome and declared himself dictator for life, famously crossing the Rubicon as he did so.) In any case, a saying (that I have heard) references the Gallic Wars: whenever anything is divided into three parts, it is said to be just like Gaul. In this case, the corpse is set to be divided into three parts by the Caesars of his peers. Notes: Gaul: Classical region of Western Europe comprising Celtica, Aquitania, Narbonensis, Helvetica, and Belgica. It is best described in modern terms as France, belgium part of Switzerland, and part of Germany. Very large place. * The strip regarding The New Lexicographers had extras overlapping; the "guard" scenes of the James Bomb arc also featured extras. And no, extras do not count.