This was the first strip of the weekly series. David and Lain each scripted their own take of how the strip should re-start, but the two ideas worked okay sequentially. Here's David's, and Lain's is next.
Ms. Fontaine, by the way, is a reference to Lily Fontaine, the nom de plume of April Stewart, a Daily Mississippian co-worker and columnist who wrote some very nice things about the strip in its early days.