So... Dave Sim currently has no working phone, or fax machine.

"That means no more Please Hold right?"

Sorry Imaginary Spotify listener, who I didn't even realize lives rent free in my head, as they say "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". Which means, Dave and I found a workaround. I email the Qs to the printshop, and they print them out, Dave's assistant picks them up, and then Dave records his As on his professional recorder (so the sound is REAL good!), has it sent to me, and I cobble it all together.

"Wait, no Matt-meandering-gobbledeygook? That's gotta make this pretty short..."

You'd think that, but the Audio runs two hours and thirty-five minutes...

This time: (I haven't listened to these fully, so I can only go by what I sent Dave)

• Dave discusses a box of stuff Matt Sent
• Then a PRE-Hold For Dave Sim, of things I would have just faxed up as they came across my desk, but I sent to be printed the same day as this month's questions
• Then the official questions:

1. Matt remembers Jeff Seiler
2. Dave remembers Jackson "Butch" Guice and Peter David
3. A message from Zolastraya
4. Fernando Ramirez's next Cerebus short story
5. @creative_fey AKA April C.'s next batch of questions
6. Jesse Herndon's Please Hold transcript for July 2024
7. Zombie Cerebus covers
8. "CEREBUS ARCHIVE - FIRST RELEASE" gold seals
9. the indicia on issue #6
10. the day Elvis and his mom died and Madonna was born
11. Strange Death of Alex Raymond original art portfolios?
12. This month's Please Hold strip

That's what I asked, but, again, I haven't listened to the whole thing, so no idea what Dave may have skipped/cut out.

Let's find out together!