Yes, that's Jess with her revised character design all fancy and colored. This isn't too much of a surprise if you've been checking the filler section in the past month or so.

There's so much I could comment on for this comic... well, to keep it super short:
- Tested a different method on using tablet
- Figuring out how to draw folds in clothes
- Got to use new character designs
- I've been wanting to use the owl gag for... six months? (Though I wanted to find a way to keep it different from a running gag in the old days of El Goonish Shive)