Nothing Happens – This comic shouldn’t exist, not because of some arduous difficulty in life nearly killing me or my co-creator nor because we endured some particularly challenging circumstance that was overcome. No, rather this comic should not exist for the simple fact that in it nothing happens. Common advice given to novelists, as I suspect remains the same for all storytelling mediums, is that if something doesn’t advance the plot or provide important exposition (neither of which occurs in Nothing Happens), then eliminate it . One can easily think of a great comic series, say Calvin and Hobbes, which is my personal favorite, where no such unnecessary piffle ever occurred. In fact I doubt any comic series, iconic or otherwise, would have anything as irrelevant and extraneous as an inane panel, let alone an entire comic strip. Nothing Happens should obviously be removed from the Nihileafs canon. Naturally this hasn’t happened, in fact this is not even the first time the Nihileafs are to be found floating with no words or action or compelling background. I imagine if the entirety of Nihileafs was just a series of comics with nothing going on – no thought-provoking dialogue, no serendipitous encounters with a varied caste, no drifting amongst numerous biomes, no commentary or metaphors on existence – it would be just as meaningful, worthwhile, and consequential as is the current rendition of Nihileafs. – Zachary