I wouldn’t mind skipping around story lines, but skipping right into the middle of a story line like this leads to confusion. orbenjawell refers to the reruns as “time-tripping”; this is more like “time-stumbling”. Fortunately, I’ve read and reread the strips so often that I can place this one. They skipped a week wherein the setup is that Julius, Ralph and Leslie are housebound in a blizzard. Their food supplies have been stolen by Kahn, the catfish and Julius’s nemesis. They are becoming hungry and…
I’d bet good money that Cho knew exactly what he was doing.