Shockingly, this strip wasn’t in the original script for this storyline, and you have Rocksalt pal and fantastical cartoonist Geoff Sebesta to thank for it. I was worried that Elvira lacked any major agency, that she was just kind of a bummer along for the ride, sort of inevitably when the whole point is that she has no power to affect things in the world beyond as a kind of conscience figure for the title character. I brought this up to him — I think we were cooking eggs or something at the time? — and he said: “You can’t give one of your characters a superpower without exploiting that superpower. What can ghosts do well?” For this strip, and other strips along these lines, we must thank him.
This phase of our neverending storyline is almost dooooone