Here we have another instance of the Laffent influence (the company
not so fond of this strip) and a very very very very small injoke.
In this case, the strip was supposed to have been written by a man
named Howard Beale. And no, you weren't supposed to get that. It was
just put in there to be funny for me. Sorry I didn't leave any for
you. I was feeling kinda selfish that week.
But
the John Rocker smurf got me high marks from certain people online,
most notably the girl who called herself Purple Smurf. Sometimes you
can mine a little gem out of something.