Matthew – Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 12:00 AM

I hope I haven't offended too many sensibilities with this shocking strip. But sometimes the comic just has to grow up, you know?

Okay, enough messing around--I actually wasn't intending on following through with the April Fools' strip but I figured I'd need to come up with something eventually. I bounced around a lot of ideas for this and it ended up making me a bit anxious. An earlier version involved a comic version of me acting like I wanted to take BitF into a bolder, darker direction, but I eventually went with this super-long buildup instead, and had a lot of fun with the silliness.

Wait a minute, comic 250's on Friday! And I just turned 25 last week. So hey, lots of quarters or something. Time to hit the arcade.