The mystery of the kick drum is finally revealed... (From way back when--beartram101--when we last saw Pintor inside the Jumpin' Bean!)

And we also learn one of the secret's of the Rodrigo-Murcielaga marriage--Rudy is very much into mean girls! And his wife was queen meanie in high school. (And college, but they went to different colleges, so that matters less...)

Pintor says "Your woman IS a very mean girl." in Spanish in panel 4.

Blitz magazine was a metal magazine "back in the day", in the "Bertie-verse". As Murci notes, it hasn't been a going concern in a LOOONNNNNGG time.

(pencil, black ink pen)