Maybe it’s addressing the question, What would be the equivalent of purposely knocking the bumper.?
I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with the other guy’s face.
I think the intended joke is that the rage involved in medieval road rage is the horses being mad at each other rather than the drivers.
“I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with the other guy’s face.”
Assuming “the other guy” is the one in the middle of the cartoon, I think he’s panicking because he doesn’t have control of his horse.
I believe James Pollock has it right, although I didn’t quite get it before his cogent explanation, and God forbid I ever get into an argument with the erudite James Pollock, but the problem with the cartoon is that it’s too damn busy. Rodney falling off the horse and the other guy’s mashed-up face cause the thing to lose focus.
When you decide to do your normally-three-panel cartoon with only one long panel, you’ve got a lot of space to fill. If you’re Johnny Hart, you can get away with comics that have big areas of white space, with just a line or two to suggest context. This is not a cartoon by Mr. Hart.
Which is why single-panel cartoons that are single-panel by design have square-r outlines. If you’re Bill Watterson, you can get away with different aspect ratios and layouts. This is not a cartoon by Mr. Watterson, either.
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Maybe it’s addressing the question, What would be the equivalent of purposely knocking the bumper.?
I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with the other guy’s face.
I think the intended joke is that the rage involved in medieval road rage is the horses being mad at each other rather than the drivers.
“I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with the other guy’s face.”
Assuming “the other guy” is the one in the middle of the cartoon, I think he’s panicking because he doesn’t have control of his horse.
I believe James Pollock has it right, although I didn’t quite get it before his cogent explanation, and God forbid I ever get into an argument with the erudite James Pollock, but the problem with the cartoon is that it’s too damn busy. Rodney falling off the horse and the other guy’s mashed-up face cause the thing to lose focus.
When you decide to do your normally-three-panel cartoon with only one long panel, you’ve got a lot of space to fill. If you’re Johnny Hart, you can get away with comics that have big areas of white space, with just a line or two to suggest context. This is not a cartoon by Mr. Hart.
Which is why single-panel cartoons that are single-panel by design have square-r outlines. If you’re Bill Watterson, you can get away with different aspect ratios and layouts. This is not a cartoon by Mr. Watterson, either.