Pain

This is the third day that Jeremy ("Zits") has been running around with the most Satanic of sunburns, which serves as a gentle-yet-funny reminder that you should be wearing sunscreen this summer if you don't want to end up looking like walking burnt toast. The puffs of smoke wafting off of his back are a nice comic touch.

A thought just struck me - since Jeremy is the center of this strip's universe, does that mean that he, like Luann and other comic teens, are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in high school? Oy. Must be comic karma - whatever you do in a past strip can come back and haunt you.

Funnily enough, in the strip directly above "Zits" (at least in the Sentinel), Miss Buxley ("Beetle Bailey") has just laid out after putting on some sunblock. Perhaps she learned from Jeremy's mistake two days ago?