When Stan dropped out to become a tattoo artist in Hawaii, Mom said he was in trouble.

Bigger trouble when she heard his customers were Yakuza thugs smuggling handguns back to Japan.

Mom was wrong.

Stan was really in trouble when he got caught kissing Momoko, the boss’s only daughter.

Katie Grotzinger is currently a student at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where she writes rhetorical criticism papers on gangster rap and cartoons.