I received an email from Guy and Rodd, creators of Brevity, alerting me that yesterday’s strip wasn’t their first swing at the joke. The first was nixed by editors. Here’s the one as it was originally drawn.
They also note that the woman in the strip looks suspiciously like a character from For Better of For Worse, but didn’t confirm if it was intentional.
Wow, in the original version, the dude was naked yet still had his socks on??? What a dork–that’s probably what made the woman so obviously apprehensive!