The origin for the random idea behind today's comic is from a couple of our friends who decided to play a prank. They texted me saying that one of them went swimming and got bitten on the eye by a rat. Now, I fell for this prank (and got slightly worried) because the said friends are highly capable of swimming in rat-infested waters. However, picturing the event caused me to crack up and sparked off a comic idea. This is what one of the texts said: "My eyeball is out of my skull and is in a rat's mouth running down the beach! aaah" (at this point I probably should have known that this was all in jest). How could I have not come up with this? If I were a bit more "Happy tree friend-ish", I'd have made it a bit more graphic but no.