(Strip Number 551, Original Publication Date, 15 February 1984)
Panel 1: About a second after yesterday's strip, Darryl comes up and notices that Mike gave Deanna a Valentine.
Panel 2: He then promises to alert Mike's (alleged) friends about this.
Panel 3: Since they're regular kids who are busy defining themselves by figuring out what they're not, they react to what they perceive as Mike's girling himself up by chanting "Michael loves Deanna", laughing at his expense and bringing up a lot a bad memories for your humble servant.
Panel 4: Deanna also reminds me of why I couldn't wait to grow up and get away from my irritating and stupid classmates by not noticing that Mike feels betrayed but commenting on how they're such children.
Summary: What makes me angry isn't the unlovely behaviour of Gordon and the rest because they grow out of it. What gets me cheesed off is that Deanna is still the same huffy, oblivious, self-absorbed and entitled dolt she was twenty-nine God-damned years ago.
