at the time everyone was fucking dumbstruck by how tonally out of place it was in a comic that was always about cheap violence, awful humor, and Gamer Culture. he threw it in for a cheap attempt at drumming up attention for him and it went over like a lead balloon. everyone hated it

i remember the webcomic forums i was in talking about how shitty it was for him to air that as a plot point in his comic when all indications were that his gf didn't want it to be in the comic and didn't know it would be