The message of this strip is that punk rock is about the feelings of sad little boys.

The song Philippe wrote is called "The Conversation" and it is by Motion City Soundtrack. It is good but it is also very emo, thereby proving the two are not mutually exclusive.

This is how I was when I was a kid. I thought everything was my fault. One time when I was six I messed up an addition problem. When I went home I just assumed I was going to be expelled and sent to work at a construction yard. I don't think my mother realized how gravely I took the situation. She smiled and laughed, thus worsening the situation in my head.

South Carolina is fucked up, yo

When I was five I woke up naked once in the night. (I just kicked off my clothes probably.) Well, my mother had instilled a deep fear of strangers and rape in me, and I didn't really know how babies got made. All I knew was strangers plus me somehow equals babies. So I assumed I had been raped in my sleep and I was pregnant and my parents would be mad. I spent the next two months in fearful anxiety, examining my belly for signs of expansion. Imagine a five year old girl with stomach-clenching fears of being a deadbeat mom by six.

Aw hon, that is completely terrible.

A less sexual story was when my brother shit his pants when he was five. He felt warmth and put his hand back there and immediately assumes robbers had broken into the house and chopped up his ass with hatchets.

Logical no, creative yes.

Oh yeah, he was asleep and it was the middle of the night, by the way. Otherwise that makes no sense.

I used to think my bellybutton was a plug, and once was playing with it and a bit of bellybutton lint came out. I freaked out...because I thought that all my insides would come out. I didn't want to interrupt my mom, who was on the phone, so instead I laid on my back to keep my insides from leaking out and cried myself to sleep.

how many times has everyone in the world wanted to sing this same song? approximately 1200, i would guess.

I am still pimping BATHS ONLY

Or, indeed, the "Billy Idol's voice from beyond the grave" words in lines.

Man, this strip is like a turning point in the world of comic book notation. When people discuss the art of comics in the future, I am guessing they'll be looking back at this.

OMG ME TOO!
"And down they went to see, roly-poly, pell-mell, tumble-bumble, 'till they came to the edge of the green grass, and there they stopped short."

A 5 even if just for Billy Idol's caring stutter.
WHAT...
WHAT'S THE
MATTER PHILIPPE