He bought life-sized fish tank decorations? And… some sort of purple floor?
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That’s aquarium gravel on the floor.
Blinky has it @1, but I wanted to add that it was probably a syndicate colorist who screwed up with the purple.
Aquarium gravel can be purple.
Note that the gravel in the fish tank is also purple: the syndicate colorist got the joke and colored accordingly.
I was relieved to understand that it was just the aquarium gravel. Is the implication that the skeleton beside him is also a decorative item from the pet supply store, but made outsize?
Otherwise, I was starting to speculate on the cause of death, and where the flesh had gone. Was the stuff on the floor an excess of piranha or similar flesh-eating fish, and they had already dealt with the second person? Or was the layer on the floor actually his partially-dissolved and detached flesh, caused either by fish (as in the previous hypothesis) or maybe the flesh-dissolver potion he has been drinking from the big poison jug?
It’s intended to be gravel, but it doesn’t look like gravel, whatever the color.
Mitch4 — yes. Aquarium decorations can include little pirate wrecks with little pirate skeletons in them.
Isn’t aquarium gravel usually purple? Purple and green must be the two most popular colors. And I think it looks enough like gravel.
Basically the joke is he went a little overboard and decorated his entire apartment in aquarium theme.
Since I’m working at home, I have considered pulling the Halloween skeletons out of the closet just so that I can feel like I have coworkers. (They count as coworkers because they appeared at work near Halloween when we were short-staffed, billed as the “Skeleton Crew”.)
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That’s aquarium gravel on the floor.
Blinky has it @1, but I wanted to add that it was probably a syndicate colorist who screwed up with the purple.
Aquarium gravel can be purple.
Note that the gravel in the fish tank is also purple: the syndicate colorist got the joke and colored accordingly.
I was relieved to understand that it was just the aquarium gravel. Is the implication that the skeleton beside him is also a decorative item from the pet supply store, but made outsize?
Otherwise, I was starting to speculate on the cause of death, and where the flesh had gone. Was the stuff on the floor an excess of piranha or similar flesh-eating fish, and they had already dealt with the second person? Or was the layer on the floor actually his partially-dissolved and detached flesh, caused either by fish (as in the previous hypothesis) or maybe the flesh-dissolver potion he has been drinking from the big poison jug?
It’s intended to be gravel, but it doesn’t look like gravel, whatever the color.
Mitch4 — yes. Aquarium decorations can include little pirate wrecks with little pirate skeletons in them.
Isn’t aquarium gravel usually purple? Purple and green must be the two most popular colors. And I think it looks enough like gravel.
Basically the joke is he went a little overboard and decorated his entire apartment in aquarium theme.
Since I’m working at home, I have considered pulling the Halloween skeletons out of the closet just so that I can feel like I have coworkers. (They count as coworkers because they appeared at work near Halloween when we were short-staffed, billed as the “Skeleton Crew”.)