And after that one strip, it dropped back down to 0 pretty quickly. It seemed to a lot of people that Tim Buckley realized "oh hey I don't want to have a baby

And after that one strip, it dropped back down to 0 pretty quickly. It seemed to a lot of people that Tim Buckley realized "oh hey I don't want to have a baby in the strip" and decided to get a cheap emotional punchline while he was writing himself out of that self-inflicted hole. But when your comic has less depth than your average Garfield comic, it doesn't work out so great.