 The central protagonist is Pete, a 21-year-old divorced college student and actor.Long-term plot arcs have dealt with the college dean's attempt to clone the faculty for cheap labor (issues 91–97), the students' participation in a civil war in a fictional banana republic (issues 53–54, 72–73, 104–107), and Pete and Amy's marriage (issues 78, 98–99, 101).Several issues (55, 76–77, 87) involve run-ins with members of the Zendik commune.