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Unsolicited manuscripts are also known (somewhat) fondly by editors as The Slush Pile, especially fiction editors. A favorite pastime of editors is to trade around some of the more incredibly bad submissions they receive. This is done more out of a sense of sanity self-preservation then malice, going through the slush pile is thankless work.

This gag originally was going to run as Gwen’s introduction way back when, with Gwen as the poop scooper. It was decided by wiser heads that our first female lead character shouldn’t be introduced shoveling excrement, and so we bumped her a few notches up the food chain to marketing. In hindsight, it was absolutely the right decision, but the gag was worth recycling. Sometime, I’ll stick some of Randy’s concept art of Gwen as lowly intern up on the voting incentive…