Talk:List of Characters/Rankers/@comment-67.164.28.122-20160805214612/@comment-26484417-20160805225323

The confusion probably comes from the separation of the two captions; they are separated by both time and space / location. This is actually a fairly common story telling device in one-strip works, where the "overflowing conversation" (i.e., text of the conversation goes beyond the caption where the conversation takes place) facilitates a context for the following caption.

Here, it's that sometime after YHS got the news from and scolded Quant, he was moulding it over and thought of a brilliant plan.