#327. Reader Mail 2026: Zia Reader Mail Month 2026
#327 *
Nov. 8, 2026
- Chloe (holding a question card): "Your turn to be abused by this stupid setup." Zia (eagerly): "Bring it on! Rapid fire, lessgo!"
- Chloe: "Valenthyne asks if you have venom or you're a constrictor." Zia (coiled up in her own tail): "Boring common bland smooth green snake, opheodrys vernalis." "A constrictor, but I am Teh Suck at it."
- Chloe: "Elfbiter asks if you've been in a biblical play about Adam and Eve?" Zia (holding an apple, shrugging): "Um... sociopathic, not evil?"
- Chloe: "Grendelkin asks if you've ever seen a mongoose." Zia: "Um... no? Should I have?"
- Chloe: "Flarecobra asks how much of the lab is marked, 'No, Zia, and this means you.'" Zia (her tail holding up a roll of stickers): "They have free rolls of 'NO ZIA' stickers in the lounge!"
- Chloe: "doadvbenwn wants..." "Um — to see you get swallowed by a vacuum cleaner, like Ghostbusters or Luigi's Mansion?" Zia (shrugging, her tail holding a "DustEater" handheld vacuum): "I mean, prolly won't work, but not gonna hate on somebody's super weird weirdo vacuum fetish." *vacuum whirrs*
- Chloe (facepalming): "RandomAhhPersonAhh wants you to list off every single one of your crimes." Zia (innocently holding up two fingers): "No felonies." "...but 297 misdemeanors."
- Chloe (angry): "Three hundred misdemeanors!?" Zia (pointing): "Did you know it's illegal to milk a pig in city hall?" Chloe: "Good God!" Zia: "Well, you do now!"
Characters: Chloe, Zia
Zia is way too enthusiastic for this bit. We got tons of questions for her this time, and she wanted to squeeze in answers to all of them, but I had to remind her we only had eight panels.
— Inker