The first true PAT comic. Jokes all over the place, some of them funny. Lots of in-jokes in this one. They are:

"Vlad Smith", the dude who thinks he's a vampire was inspired by a guy that went to my college that did in fact think he was one of the undead. Nice guy if you overlook that tiny fact. Wonder if he still thinks so. Jesus, I wonder if the poor guy's even still alive, what with all the slayers and sunlight.

The "cool guest star" was from a neighboring comic strip called WORLD OF PEZ. It was an odd little piece of art featuring many a pez dispenser saying creepy things and shooting each other. But I will say it was the best prentenious pez dispenser comic strip since BEETLE BAILEY.

Bob Timony and Pete Timony were two twins that also had comic strips. One (let's call him Bob) drew one called SIR ROLAND, about a crazy Knight who got in all sorts of crazy misadventures and usually spent the last panel of the strip nursing some kinda insane headwound from a wacky anvil accident or outta site moat mishap. That's Sir Roland on their shirt. The other (let's also call him Bob, as they were identical twins and who cares at this point) wrote and drew A ZOMBIE AND HIS DOG. Every damn strip the zombie would lose an arm in someone's soup or something.

The word "chadinthoa" written under one of their arms was something I heard them yell when they were on the roof of the dorms bein' wacky. Please note one Timony brother is EXCITED (exclamation point over his head) while the other is CONFUSED (question mark over his head).

Postscript to this comic: They hated me for it. One of them hunted me down (with the vampire-guy in tow, actually, who loved his comic appearance...he was probably just excited to see himself in print, after years of not being unable to be photographed or appear in mirrors) and proceeded to growl at me (yes, growl) and then tell me that the comic was an insult to their individuality. I was going to point out that I did say they had different personalities (after all, one was EXCITED and one CONFUSED) but I knew I had no right to make fun of them, really. Here were two kids that I had never talked to and I had to go and publicly mock them by drawing them as some kinda two headed monster.

I apologized for insulting their individuality and told him I'd make it up to them. To this day I have no idea which brother it was. Does it matter, really? Freaky twin freaks of freaky nature.

This was also Mugsy's first appearance. Just so you know. And I guess he won the "who should be Pat's sidekick" contest, as he appeared in PAT from then on.