What makes this so funny for me is that I foreshadowed Wally's makeover perfectly in a mashup punchline on 29 Sept (http://dilbert.com/mashups/punchline/?Author=aftercolumbia) ... I was looking at the coffee cup, one of Wally's dead-giveaway-signals, and implied that Elbonian fella was actually Wally. (Disclaimer: I'm not saying that I influenced Scott, I'm pretty sure I didn't.)