What gets me is that the dragon's function is a blatant plot-dumping device and yet Mookie still manages to screw that up. He could have had the beat up dragon contact Luna out of the blue and it would serve exactly the same function, but instead we got a couple of days of Luna trying to contact him.
I'm honestly wondering if Mookie writes any notes for his writing at all or whether he has to throw in stuff like Luna saying "I want to contact the dragon" into the strips as a reminder to about what to do next week.