Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 04, 2004
Transcript:
"Gee, Ivona, this is a great first date. Will you marry me?" "What?" "Uh, could you excuse me? I need to use the restroom." "Okay, $$#@$% why'd you write that?" "Write what?" "Don't play dumb with me, Pastis... I'm going back out to that panel, and when I do, I expect to be in a quiet little date scene, or I'm calling the %$#@ features editor, and having them replace this &^%$ strip with Hagar the Horrible!" "I don't get that."
First Pastis appearance. classic. too bad he didn’t literally “show”…