As much as I like being lauded for having done my research (and I did look up pictures of yaks), in this case it's probably more of a combination of me lacking any particular "yaks are huge" preconception in the first place, and the need to have the critter actually fit into the panel...
Well, he is single again now, so the beard making him more attractive may indeed not be something he would mind...;-D
(I am not sure if he is actually that great dating material right now, though... I fear that he might over-idealize his memories of Babette, and this unfairly compare any future love interest with her... Perhaps a bit comparable to your Faustus & Susan situation.)
And while there won't likely be a full-blown spinoff, my plan is it indeed to show further vignettes of his ongoing journey of despair self-discovery once in a while...
This would be a fun spinoff!
(I am not sure if he is actually that great dating material right now, though... I fear that he might over-idealize his memories of Babette, and this unfairly compare any future love interest with her... Perhaps a bit comparable to your Faustus & Susan situation.)
And while there won't likely be a full-blown spinoff, my plan is it indeed to show further vignettes of his ongoing journey of
despairself-discovery once in a while...(this only endears him even more to me, of course...)