Look out--he's on a roll!

Having taken on the UNC administration and ARA, I was emboldened enough to take a cheap shot at one of our country's most controversial and polarizing senators. Truthfully, I didn't know squat about Jesse Helms at the time--only that he was an ultra-conservative Republican in Reagan's pocket, and that he once said North Carolina didn't need its own zoo. "Just put a fence around Chapel Hill," he quipped. Well, that was enough to make him an enemy to me. In the end, though, this strip merely serves as a setup to year-ending series that finds Beagle getting lucky (?) for the first time since his debut. Totally out of character for him to pursue a strange girl in a dance club, but whatever--a setup's a setup.