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I don't know.

That all changed when I turned 12,

and I became fixated on Sheena.

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, '

a TV show around '55, '56.

I became totally obsessed with Sheena

and went to bed every night...

thinking about the things

I wanted to do with Sheena.

Robert was very hung up on sex

when he was a little kid...

even more so than I was.

- I was? You think so?

- Yeah.

You were more inhibited as a child

than I was, even sexually.

You were more afraid of women than I was

as a young person.

When I was in high school,

I had a few dates with girls.

When you were in high school,

you didn't have any dates with anybody.

You were actually

sort of good-Iooking.

I was a handsome, good-Iooking chap

when I was a teenager.

But there was just something

that was wrong with my personality.

The teachers hated him,

the kids hated him.

High school was an absolute nightmare.

I was the most unpopular kid

in the high school.

People were always picking on me

and beating me up.

And the girls wouldn't

have anything to do with me.

They treated me like I was

the scum of the earth.

In this strip, I'm talking all about

my problems with women...

starting with high school

where I learned a lot about women...

because there was this guy

named Skutch, this guy here...

who was like this mean bully...

but he was also very charming.

All the girls liked him.

He was the dreamboat...

but he was also a bully.

My brother Charles was one of the guys

he singled out for particular attention.

He had this gang of flunkies

that hung around with him, with Skutch.

So I remember this scene...

where Skutch punches out my brother

in the hallway at school.

It was a very sad sight

for me to see.

Charles gave up trying to be popular

or have girlfriends...

after everybody saw he couldn't fight

back, that he was beat up by Skutch.

I've been living at home

since I graduated from high school.

I made a few feeble attempts

along the way.

You're no worse off than people that are

in the world and have to deal with it.

But you got to take into consideration

that I'm taking tranquilizers.

And that makes it a lot easier

than it would otherwise be...

by taking these tranquilizers

and antidepressants.

If it wasn't for them, I'd probably

go completely crazy living with Mother.

I have to walk on eggs

when I'm around her.

Yeah, you do.

You can't tell my mother

the absolute truth.

She's in a heavy state of denial

about a lot of things.

I don't think

we should be talking about this.

- Where's my kitty cats?

- About her mother, she's...

What the hell's going on?

She doesn't like you to talk about

her mother who was a complete monster.

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