Two observations:
Is "Al" an elf now? I seem to see them bouncing around that a bit and I noticed that the comic has his eyes elf-like.
I also think that "Mike" Gabe is a pretty huge testament to how much easier 4E is to DM than previous editions. In the short year it's been since he threw his first polyhedral in the first podcast, he's created a falling encounter that I've seen talked about and requested on multiple message boards. Someone with no experience went to creating a coveted encounter in a short period of time... and if you take a look at the twitter accounts of him and his group, you can definitely tell he's done a top notch job of working with the game to create some great encounters.
I think it'd be cool to see a delve type encounter published by Mike in Dungeon.
I also think it'd be pretty incredible to see Jerry (Tycho) publish an extremely RP-heavy little combat adventure for Dungeon. Seeing how well he writes for this last decade really makes me want to see how he'd approach that...