Origin
Petey appears in the Fantagraphics one-shot, Trucker Fags In Denial.
Creation
Petey was created by Jim Goad and Jim Blanchard.
Character Development
Petey is a long distance truck driver who spends most of his time with his friend and coworker Butch. Petey is the more sensitive, patient, submissive one of the two friends. Both friends are extremely bigoted, particularly toward homosexuals. Petey reveals that this is because when he was a child, after his parents were sent to prison, he was sexually abused by his therapist.
While on the road together, Butch and Petey end up spending a night in the same room at a hotel. Over the course of this night the pair have sex several times, only to wake up feeling awkward and full of shame in the morning. After spending all day avoiding the subject, with tensions mounting between the pair, Butch and Petey attack each other. They are then arrested and thrown in jail, where they take advantage of their shared cell and resume their sexual activities from the previous night. In spite of their physical intimacy with each other, the pair vehemently deny – both aloud and in in private – that they are homosexual. Instead they rationalise their actions, and appease their consciences by going on a violent spree, killing any homosexual men they encounter while still enjoying a sexual relationship with each other.
Major Story Arcs
Petey does not appear in any major story arcs.
Powers and Abilities
Petey does not have any special abilities.