I suspect that this comic was largely motivated by the recent mix-up with Jeff and Zipper as they commented on Alex and Toggle’s honeymoon.
Zipper had frequently expressed infatuation with Alex in the past, even calling himself her boyfriend, but in the honeymoon series this trait was mistakenly attributed to Jeff… which was kind of gross, since Jeff (being the son of Alex’s grandmother Joanie Caucus) is a blood relative; a half-uncle to Alex, unless I’m mistaken.
Watergate was previously mentioned in a Sunday strip in the middle of Mike and Mark’s ’72 Summer Road Trip, while they were in Washington.
But this does mark the point where the strip began to be consumed with the subject, just as America was at the time. May 22, 1973 to September 2, 1974; it seems interminable just reading it, and it must have been a thousand times worse having to read about it in the newspaper every day and see it in the nightly news.
I suspect that this comic was largely motivated by the recent mix-up with Jeff and Zipper as they commented on Alex and Toggle’s honeymoon.
Zipper had frequently expressed infatuation with Alex in the past, even calling himself her boyfriend, but in the honeymoon series this trait was mistakenly attributed to Jeff… which was kind of gross, since Jeff (being the son of Alex’s grandmother Joanie Caucus) is a blood relative; a half-uncle to Alex, unless I’m mistaken.