Sometimes she’s just so brilliant … even if not actually funny (nor trying).
For the longer-term fans than I have been, has she previously made this much use of photos and photo-realism in drawing?
The sense made of the Memory Palace idea here is more loosely evocative than a strict adherence to the traditional prescriptions for a mnemonic tool (or modern self-help and DIY expositions). It’s a bit more in the direction of emotionally evocative recollection, though not going as far into that mode as, say, Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace podcast on Radiotopia. Nor is it madeleine-sniffing. But it’s somewhere in that territory. But jumps back to face its original speculative-fictional premise in practical-level terms.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Brilliance is in the eye of the beholder. I’ve never been a big fan of “Lay Lines“, but I thought this one was better than average.
P.S. I was seriously hoping that the final frame would turn out to be a self-portrait, but both Wikipedia as well as Carol Lay’s own website seem to indicate that this is highly unlikely:
Haven’t listened to The Memory Palace podcast in years, probably because Nick switched to Radiotopia (a podcast service I was unaware of). Thanks for the reminder.
I don’t have time to seek out and listen to podcasts very often but i did like the “Memory Palace” bit shown here.
The last frame looks like a particular well-known comix artist but II can’t quite remember who. Trina Robbins?
The James Burke show “Connections” featured Medieval Memory Palaces in an episode.
Hm, despite owning all of Series 1 of Connections on DVD, the idea of Medieval Memory Palaces doesn’t ring a bell. Do you remember which episode it was?
I envy you, Powers (6). That was an outstanding series.
That’s because it turns out to be the episode “A Matter of Fact” from the other show, “The Day the Universe Changed”.
The only times I heard mention of memory palaces was on “Sherlock”. First, there was a Milverton-type villain who stored vast amounts of blackmail data in his head. Later, Sherlock himself gathered witnesses in a mental chamber (and is annoyed when an irrelevant Irene Adler appears).
Ah, that would explain it!