I’ve mentioned in this space before my love of the comic strip, Pearls Before Swine, and more importantly, its writer’s fondness for long, circuitous stories that end in a really lame pun-laden punchline. These strips usually end with Rat lambasting his creator, Stephan Pastis, at the latter’s own writing desk for his worthlessness as an artist and/or human being. Also, PBS (the strip, not the public television network) often randomly pulls in characters from other strips: most notably the kids from “Family Circus”, and always to great comic effect.

I decided to steal both these ideas, attempt them myself in an exceedingly lame manner, and pass it off as something “special” for my 300th strip.

Who said the life of a cartoonist ain’t glamorous?