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Originally published 7 October 1998

Everybody's favorite running gag. Because really I don't have that many running gags.

This, of course, began the very first storyline in which Millie cut Ozy's hair and he ended up looking like some sort of hairless burrowing rodent.

At the time I sort of panicked mid-storyline, worrying that the whole thing might make Millie less sympathetic to readers, might be too cruel to be funny, yada yada yada. As repeat revisitations of this gag demonstrated, it was a silly concern that underestimated how much the audience would tolerate, and if I had it to do over again it would probably have been meaner.

Ozy clearly knows how to cope. Besides, he really doesn't look so bad bald.

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