By the way, Mr. Hilburn probably should have chosen a store that will still be around by the time this comic makes it to a paperback collection.
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What store(s) would that be? Even WalMart is downsizing in size and amount of stores.
Starbucks – even if they downsize it will just mean there’s only one on every other corner.
Grumbles?
They have to leave the body in the car right? Otherwise it wouldn’t help very much.
It could have been an Amazon brick and mortar shop.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazons-expanding-u-s-brick-mortar-footprint-stacks-big-retailers/
how would removing his electrodes make him headless?
And of course even if they removed his LEGS, he’s going to be out of the car so all that matters is whether they have the handicapped parking tag.
This comic fails on at least two levels. First, I would have thought that Igor’s hunch would have qualified for enough of a disability level to park there. Second, exiting the car with a visibly handicapped individual will only mollify any civilian witnesses that happen to be present. It will have no effect on any police that discover the parked car later: for them, the only thing that counts is whether the car has a corresponding “handicapped” sticker or plate.
>>.for them, the only thing that counts is whether the car has a corresponding “handicapped” sticker or plate.
They have a handicap placard. But they are scrupulously honest about using it legally.
Target is doing fine.
I just earned the “dark horse gullibility prize” for zooming the comic to look for woozy’s “handicap placard”.
Just a generic sign that said “mall” probably would have worked as well or better than Macy’s, regardless of their long-term viability. At least he had the sense not to use Sears.
I, however, would have leaned the other direction on the store name and chosen a defunct retailer like Montgomery Ward or Mervyn’s or *shudder* Service Merchandise for kicks and grins. This is one of the many reasons I am a guy with a sketchpad and not a syndicated cartoonist.
WOW, Service Merchandise. Now that brings back memories . . . was always a fun place to look around, and they had a great catalog.
“Target is doing fine.”
Not in Canada!
And just apropos, did you know there is a department store called “Target” with the same target logo in Australia that is not affiliated with the North American Target in any way? Convergent evolution at its finest. If you examine the two logos side by side, you notice that they have slightly different font faces, but you’d never think they weren’t the same store encountering one on the (upsidedown) ground (or vice versa) as a tourist.
Back to Frankenstein’s monster . . . http://comicskingdom.com/bizarro/2018-10-31
“I just earned the “dark horse gullibility prize” for zooming the comic to look for woozy’s “handicap placard”.”
Oops, sorry. I was just engaging in what my college room-mates what called “plasma flares”. We’d watch classic Strar Trek reruns and complain about logistics and inconsistancies and try to explain them. Often due to “plasma flares”.
I was being tongue in cheek. The joke is to park in the handicap zone they need to make the monster handicapped by removing his head… which doesn’t make any sense as it’s not the lack of a handicap person that will ding them; it’s the lack of a handicap placard. So to plasma flare explain this, they’d have had a placard and their concern is applying it legally…. because …. they are scrupulously honest????
@woozy: “their concern is applying it legally…. because …. they are scrupulously honest????”
Well, sure. Just because they “tampered in God’s domain” doesn’t mean they’re going to risk violating municipal parking ordinances! Priorities!
I had one of those “moments” today while I was out and about. At the shopping center, there was a guy parked in handicapped. He was youngish, athletic-looking, and unloaded several baskets of clothes to take into the laundomat. So what do you do? Confront him and demand to know his handicap? Not everyone with a disability looks it, of course. I went on my way.
“Back to Frankenstein’s monster ”
Some people in the comments seem to think he’d have a bunch of mixed up DNA. Stitching together various body parts doesn’t work that way.
It does bring to mind the odd phenomenon of chimerism. That’s where multiple embryos fuse to become one individual. This often can’t be detected unless there’s a DNA test with odd results. Like a mother who’s not a mother to a child based on her DNA test, because the cheek came from a different embryo than the ovaries.
Andréa, that’s the first time I remember that the Eyeball of Observation, or indeed any of the Secret Symbols, was actually integrated into the cartoon.
@ Treesong – There was the crown masquerading as a scout patch and/or badge two weeks ago: https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/yet-another-pinata-comic-and-yet-another-death-comic/
@larK – that was due to incredibly stupidity on their part. They’d probably have done ok if they were the same store that they are in the US.
@Brian in STL – Sure, that’s the logical thing to do, but that has got to put you in at least the top half of the population in terms of using common sense.
In the original Shelley novel (as opposed to the movies) it isn’t even clear that the monster IS created from stithced-together corpse parts. . . I think the details are kept vague. Arguments for and against here:
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152320/what-is-frankensteins-monster-made-of-in-the-original-novel
Just ran into the stupidest article about Frankenstein ever: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5732932/snowflake-students-dub-frakenstein-misunderstood-victim/
@Winter Wallaby – I wouldn’t be surprised if the writer knows better, but figures they can trick someone (at least get them angry enough to not think at all to see the flaw) and sell papers that way.
Christine: I tend to assume that most of those in the media (particularly the really high-profile ones) who publish obviously stupid things know better, but have found pretending to be selectively stupid is a good career move.