In the case of Downton, Fellowes wooed us with diamonds, allowed us to fall in love, and then tried taking us to Red Lobster for our first anniversary.

Man. This is like I stepped into a time machine and ended up in 2004 or something. I haven’t drawn many strips like this lately: single panel, full color, with a joke that feels like you’ve just walked in as the punchline is being told. That’s all I DID back then, guys! And then I was seduced by the power of multiple panels and multiple jokes and all of that decadent nonsense. But for today, we’re dialing it back. So here’s a Ben & Winslow strip, 2004-style.

Hello, my name is Nick Hilbourn, a professional English major.

If you’re like me, then you see women every day. Sometimes, twice a day. If you’re a woman, then you should probably double that number.

Yet, I am still shocked by the amount of misinformation about women’s bodies. I ignored this ignorance with a god-like patience until the last election, when the comments of some friends regarding the female body really threw me for a loop.

With it now being the third month into President Obama’s second term, quite a few debates regarding legislation has sprung up. There’s the ever popular “Defense of Marriage Act,” this whole second amendment hullabaloo, women’s rights when it comes to the development of a parasite in their body, drone attacks on American civilians, I’m sure there’s more, but you can only watch so much C-Span before you think to yourself “This would be a lot more interesting if Vince McMahon were Speaker….”

For those of you on the other side of the world, IHOP stands for International House of Pancakes. It’s a restaurant that specializes in breakfast, but it’s only truly great because, in many locations, you can order breakfast 24 hours a day. It’s not very international, though, so I don’t want the joke to be lost on you actual internationals.