Style Invitational Week 1035: In toon with the news in the Empress's 500th column

Five hundred Style Invitational contests ago today, the anonymous Czar had some news to tell. But for a journalist, he sure didn't get his point across very clearly. His news was that starting with the next week's contest, Week 536 (Dec. 14, 2003), the Czar would be outta here, replaced by an equally anonymous Empress (I didn't get named on this page until 2011).