I believe the original plan was that we would ask D questions in this thread and chat/speculate about the comic ourselves in the other one.
However, questions naturally came up in both threads blurring the lines. It might have been better/more organic to have a single thread for each comic, where questions and wild speculation could grow up together, with the added bonus of there being a clear signal to the forum lurkers when the new comic has arrived.
I have seen this technique deployed in other places, and it tends to result in less confusion, and keeps new updates from derailing discussion of the previous ones.
It's not too late to change our format, if the boss wants to make it happen.
What do you say D, do you want to change things up, now that we're finally codifying what the current system means?