This is one of those comics that doesn’t fly as well with the old-fashioned-newspaper-comic crowd. You know the ones. The readers who really like some of the old, well mulched down comic strips- the ones that don’t make you think.
I like the cartoons that carry you into the implied story- inviting you to create the backstory or envisioning the next occurrence… and then you realize that there’s a whole ‘nother cartoon that comes from inside your head, and not off my pencil, that I gave you the hint for.
The first time I recall seeing such a cartoon was an old Dennis the Menace. All in one panel, Mr. Mitchell has gotten out of his car (briefcase in his hand, hat on his head, tie loose… he’s just getting home, don’t you think?) and Mr. Wilson, sweating and angry, is leaning across the hedge and scowling at Mr. Mitchell. I think Dennis was nervously watching from a distance. Mr. Mitchell says, “Let me get this straight… Dennis broke your CROW BAR?”
Darn funny writing. Whole backstory for you to create. And foreshadowing some more funny business. Nice.
Hey, at least life got back under control and Kara isn’t standing there idly anymore. Heh on her setting Mr. Impossible up there…. he’d have 185 shots taken and still not be happy even if it’s a free picture. (long story about a gig I rescued with photoshop a few Christmases ago. I wasn’t the one that created it but spent a week fixing it for not nearly enough $)
A couple of us working with the boss one day, using his 4-foot crowbar as people use such things. The bit at the end broke. Boss looks at his crowbar and says, “I don’t know if I’m impressed you did this or unimpressed at the quality of my crowbar.”
Maybe crowbars were tougher, back in the day when Dennis was only, what thirty years old.
It looks like mister number seventeen might be running another race soon, and he better come in first, never a good idea to say “hey stupid” to a cranky big guy.
Moral: “Do not mess with the babe in the bonnet. Especially if you’re overly demanding, and her name is Kara.”
Oh, now, you KNOW that no one who is overly demanding thinks that they are overly demanding. C.S. Lewis made a neatly worded point over it in Screwtape Letters. It’s a form of Gluttony that no one realizes they have since it’s “just the littlest thing I want… just a little thing, done correctly is all…”
Then, the above strip becomes a litmus test.
If you find yourself going up to a big guy and calling him “Stupid,” you may be a red neck.
No, wait, wrong test…
sure, does he wants the cheerleaders to go with it and bring one home too?
probably shouldn’t say that because I bet he actually WOULD.
You don’t deal with Kara.. you AIM her..
Correct
Also: Kara versus Raye is otherwise known as “scorched earth”. Stay away!
That one would be worth sending a drone to report that one back live and watch it from your bunker with the popcorn and soda….