Somehow this was really hard, and after redrawing a couple of the panels fifty million times, I’m amazed that I could ink this whole page without screwing it up too much, except giving Willie an ink blot goatee and drawing one of Aeron’s eyes a few millimeters too high up. Whee! Nothing Photoshop couldn’t fix.
Driftwood’s Slavonics lesson #357 is in panel 3. The papakha (a word of Azeri origin) has had a quite turbulent history in Russian military uniforms …
The preferred fur hat for colder regions is called ushanka, which comes from ukho, “ear”.
