I am sure that L.F. is right about “Pinocchio” being the artist’s intention, but I had to look up whether he really had strings.
Everybody knows he got no strings!
He bought his firewood from the evil circus clown, the one with all the donkeys.
In the last (third) panel, what does he see in the fire that alarms him so much? Still a CIDU for me! I do see the controller and the special sticks — but they are safe in his hands, not being burned.
Mitch4, he sees the arms but not the head, so he’s thinking he already burned it up.
He is missing the head, body and one leg. Not a good sign. I guess that instead of becoming a donkey Pinocchio has made an ash of himself.
Ah, I see now — thanks!
“I see,” said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
should have put a leg or arm sticking out of the fire.
Firewood… is made of people! (or marionettes).
“Soylent cellulose is puppet people!!!”
Well, it doesn’t actually have to be Pinocchio. Assuming the clown is a puppeteer it could be a generic marionette. And if the clown is discarding it because it’s broken or no longer useful, why not sell it with the firewood? And if it is Pinocchio, he should be a real boy by now because that’s what happened at the end of the story. So I see several ways to get it but none of them are funny.
The hat with the feather is the Disney version:
Ranedeer’s suggestion is logical, but it would make the outcome too definite. It is the tension caused by Buni’s uncertainty that makes the third panel work.
“And when you are growing too old, you will make good… FIREWOOD!” Stromboli, “Pinocchio”
Comics I Don't Understand 
Burning Pinocchio (instead of Burning Man.)
I am sure that L.F. is right about “Pinocchio” being the artist’s intention, but I had to look up whether he really had strings.
Everybody knows he got no strings!
He bought his firewood from the evil circus clown, the one with all the donkeys.
In the last (third) panel, what does he see in the fire that alarms him so much? Still a CIDU for me! I do see the controller and the special sticks — but they are safe in his hands, not being burned.
Mitch4, he sees the arms but not the head, so he’s thinking he already burned it up.
He is missing the head, body and one leg. Not a good sign. I guess that instead of becoming a donkey Pinocchio has made an ash of himself.
Ah, I see now — thanks!
“I see,” said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
should have put a leg or arm sticking out of the fire.
Firewood… is made of people! (or marionettes).
“Soylent cellulose is puppet people!!!”
Well, it doesn’t actually have to be Pinocchio. Assuming the clown is a puppeteer it could be a generic marionette. And if the clown is discarding it because it’s broken or no longer useful, why not sell it with the firewood? And if it is Pinocchio, he should be a real boy by now because that’s what happened at the end of the story. So I see several ways to get it but none of them are funny.
The hat with the feather is the Disney version:
Ranedeer’s suggestion is logical, but it would make the outcome too definite. It is the tension caused by Buni’s uncertainty that makes the third panel work.
“And when you are growing too old, you will make good… FIREWOOD!” Stromboli, “Pinocchio”