A visual metaphor, perhaps? Not something you would normally expect from BC.
Is that it? Her rejection of him as a paramour means he feels really, really low? Because the really weird perspective in panel two just throws me for a curve, otherwise.
He’s got that sinking feeling?
He feels very, very low. That’s all. Not only would a more… Arlo metaphor be out of place in BC, that’s exactly where she said he *wouldn’t* be going.
The friendship zone, pictured as a gully.
The art has changed, too. The “cute chick” doesn’t look very cute.
@ ignatzz – Hart is not drawing the strip any more. Mason is his grandson. I don’t mind the shift in his artwork (in particular the resulting blurring of character appearances) quite so much as his lack of knowledge of their fundamental personality quirks. If he’s going to inherit a nearly 50-year-old legacy, then I think he should have read it all from the beginning, instead of just the Wikipedia summary.
It bothers me a bit that she is drawn walking up a steep hill without bending at the waist. I don’t expect perfect artwork but it seems obvious that she would be tumbling backward at that angle.
@ Mark M – I think that orientation might be correct or at least intentional. The friendship “pit” or trench into which B.C. has fallen is a subjective construct of his own. Within the Cute Chick’s frame of reference, she is continuing to walk upon the same flat ground where she was in the first panel.
Maybe the Fat Broad will still have him.
Perhaps the intent is that the ground opened and swallowed him up?
I have to agree with what Kilby (FEBRUARY 21, 2020 AT 9:15 AM) said.
I got ‘sinking feeling’ from it. Typical BC, almost sorta kinda funny but not really.
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A visual metaphor, perhaps? Not something you would normally expect from BC.
Is that it? Her rejection of him as a paramour means he feels really, really low? Because the really weird perspective in panel two just throws me for a curve, otherwise.
He’s got that sinking feeling?
He feels very, very low. That’s all. Not only would a more… Arlo metaphor be out of place in BC, that’s exactly where she said he *wouldn’t* be going.
The friendship zone, pictured as a gully.
The art has changed, too. The “cute chick” doesn’t look very cute.
@ ignatzz – Hart is not drawing the strip any more. Mason is his grandson. I don’t mind the shift in his artwork (in particular the resulting blurring of character appearances) quite so much as his lack of knowledge of their fundamental personality quirks. If he’s going to inherit a nearly 50-year-old legacy, then I think he should have read it all from the beginning, instead of just the Wikipedia summary.
It bothers me a bit that she is drawn walking up a steep hill without bending at the waist. I don’t expect perfect artwork but it seems obvious that she would be tumbling backward at that angle.
@ Mark M – I think that orientation might be correct or at least intentional. The friendship “pit” or trench into which B.C. has fallen is a subjective construct of his own. Within the Cute Chick’s frame of reference, she is continuing to walk upon the same flat ground where she was in the first panel.
Maybe the Fat Broad will still have him.
Perhaps the intent is that the ground opened and swallowed him up?
I have to agree with what Kilby (FEBRUARY 21, 2020 AT 9:15 AM) said.
I got ‘sinking feeling’ from it. Typical BC, almost sorta kinda funny but not really.