Several years later, I wrote and drew what happened immediately after this moment in a story titled "After The Kiss."

We played up Hawk & Croc assaulting Joanie for laughs, but for real: Don't beat someone up for stealing apples. That's just unncessary, and you should go see a counselor…

We all knew that this day would come. The Bovein family weren't in the first chapter of Hawk & Croc, so we had to write them out of the story…

That last panel is an homage to Amazing Spider-Man #50.

Hawk & Croc are dressed like WWE Tag Team The New Age Outlaws. Because it was 1998. Also, uh. We maybe didn't realize that we had miscalculated how long this…

The apple icon was drawn by artist Emily Roeder, for a project she was working on at the time. She sent me the image and gave us permission to use…

If you noticed the color shift between the last comic and this one, it's because got a new computer, and the colors were calibrated differently.

Rather than just do a one-panel gag where everybody is dressed up for Halloween, we decided to do a month-long adventure!

They're definitely playing Street Fighter Alpha 2.

See, because smoking marijuana, or "Mary Jane," or "MJ" gets you high. "BURP!" "Nice one!" is a throwback to the first strip. Croc being in "high places" is a throwback…

This is a parody of the first time Mary Jane Watson ever appeared in Spider-Man. "Mary Jane" is an alternate name for the drug "marijuana." And look, Biff's watch even…