I knew the team had been in PLACE for a while, but there's those interminable time lags where one contributor's stuff runs out and the new guy takes over, then there's the bedding-in process, must give the bloke time to get his eye in, so to speak. I reckon almost a year is enough bedding-in.
Basically I want someone to trash it and say it's a shadow of the great strip now that this new writer is doing it. You're not helping at all, Peeps.