The animated sparkles seem to have gone down really well, which is good. They were well worth the extra effort it took to create them.
The tech specs are quite simple - this is an animated GIF with three frames set to loop endlessly. As most of the strip remains the same in each frame, with just the sparkles (created with a random scatter brush in Photoshop) different, there isn't much of a size overhead. I'll do this more often, whenever I can come up with a gag that warrants it...
