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{{This GPF cartoon was guest-written and drawn by Ian McDonald, creator of "Bruno the Bandit."}}

Narrator: In a dank dungeon, in an unknown location, deep underground...
[[A dark corridor, at the end of which is a lighted doorway. Voices issue from the doorway]]
Trudy: Are you awake, my sweet?
Jeff: Groannn...

[[Jeff Darlington, wearing a Fred T-shirt, is chained to the wall. Trudy appears in her black dominatrix outfit]]
Jeff: T-Trudy?? Where am I??
Trudy: That's not important, love! What IS important is that your readers miss you, and want you back at your drawing board!

Trudy [[off-panel]]: They believe you're on "hiatus" from GPF. I have several web cartoonists doing guest strips for you!
Jeff: Hiatus...? Who did you get?

Trudy [[off-panel]]: Bill Holbrook, Thomas K. Dye, Chris Crosby, Mike Leffel, Michael McKay-Fleming, Jamie Robertson, Ryan Smith, James Kerr, Robb Tanner, Jim Alexander, Maritza Campos, Vince Suzukawa, T. Campbell, Ian McDonald...
Jeff: GAAAH! Are you trying to RUIN me??

Trudy: Quite the opposite! I want you to give the readers more of what they want: ME!!
Jeff [[off-panel]]: WHAT?

Trudy: I want to be the star of GPF! The strip should focus on ME! And, I want Nick to be my love slave, after I run over Ki with a steamroller!
Jeff [[off-panel]]: And if I refuse?

Trudy: Then I'll turn the strip over to one of the cartoonists filling in on your "hiatus." Whichever one would work cheapest!
Jeff: That'd probably be McDonald! But none of them can cartoon worth a darn!

Jeff: If one of those yahoos drew GPF, you'd lose all my readers! What good is being the star of a comic strip that nobody reads?

Trudy: Ulp!

Trudy: I can still break out the whips and hot irons, buster!
Jeff: Sounds like my bedroom on a Saturday night...
Trudy: Where do you think I got them?
{{Jeff: Thanx fer lettin' me draw yer comic strip! -Ian McDonald}}