I spent a fair amount of time drawing Nick with his arms crossed. Only to cover it up with Miles' obnoxiously large speech bubble. Curse my lack of space-budgeting skills! Then again, I opted to cover a guy with a speech bubble instead of draw him in last Monday's strip, so you might say that that's karma.

By the way, I apologize for turning whatever it is Miles has done to Nick a sort of "Noodle Incident." (If you don't know what that is, read more Calvin and Hobbes. Or TV Tropes.)