Okay, the skull Jens continues for one more strip, and looking back I think I ended that idea much too quickly. I was still learning how to write a daily strip, and I had a tendency to burn through an idea and restore normality way too fast.

Later I learned that if something throws your fictonal world out of balance, you can easily stay there, enjoy it for a while. One idea, one unbalance, can carry several strips, sometimes even weeks! Back then I was almost afraid of that, my intuition leaned towards balance. I hurried to get everything back in place and move on to the next idea. I wish someone told me that early on. If you're starting a strip... I'm telling you NOW! Learn from my mistakes. Being too quick moving on, I used up an incredible amount of material in the beginning.

But this was me learning in public. That was part of the deal.

Strip 2 also introduces Børge properly, the main character’s friend and colleague. Who happens to be a fish. That became one of the rules of Dunce: visual metaphors and surreal stuff in general can easily be part of its logic.