*virus* (Latin for ‘slime’) is a strange word, though. It’s an o-stem neuter, so the final *s* is anomalous (one would expect *m*). There’s no attested plural in Latin, because it’s a mass noun; but as a neuter its plural ought to be either *vira* or *virora*.

Also, why are the best strips always on Tuesday?

P.S. Tiff, I would buy that.

Well, she kind of DID grow him from scratch. His body, anyway.

You know, that is amazingly brilliant–even considering how brilliant you normally are in these comments!

Come to think of it, you should have a picture of Dave asking Helen that on the front, and an evilly grinning Mell holding up a large beaker of nasty-looking substance on the back, for overall effect.

{Darkstarr falls off his chair laughing hysterically at the thought of that…}

Also a surprisingly effective attack, as anyone who’s battled Zerg Banelings in StarCraft 2 will readily tell you!

(Eww, horrifying mental image of Helen seeing Dave playing SC2, seeing the zerg in action, and suddenly getting ideas of creating them in “real” life just came to me as I typed the above. Then again, it would probably make a good fanfic…)